Inserting current publication date into a topic

We want to add the current month and year that a publication is published in our copyright topic.  This would be the month and year that an author clicks Publish in Publication Manager to publish their output.  This copyright topic is library topic that is reused in several maps/publications.   

 

Is there a way to set up a variable that SDL would then automatically populate with the Published current month and year?  It would seem like SDL would have a system variable that I could use for this purpose?

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  • Hi Dave, Thanks for your reply. We already insert the currentdate on our PDF cover page. However, this is different in that we are building the cover page via FOP/DITA OT and adding that currentdate to an FO block on the page (its not actually coming from any DITA topic). Where as in this siutation, we want the date added within the content of the XML file (we are producing HTML output). I am not sure how we'd inject this same date into an HTML page that is generated from an XML topic. I thought there was maybe a system variable that we could use that SDL has already, but perhaps not.