On occasion you need to export the current date/time for one reason or another. This is how you get it out of the export:

<quer:projection alias="CurrentDateTime" xmlns:quer="http://www.taleo.com/ws/integration/query">
	<quer:customFunction name="TO_CHAR">
		<quer:date type="now"/>
		<quer:string>yyyy-MM-dd</quer:string>
	</quer:customFunction>
</quer:projection>
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