Hello list,

Org uses a timestamp format like the following across all its functionality:

[2009-10-29 Thu 17:14]

I would like to be able to ouput this string whenever I'd like to a buffer, with the current timestamp, this is useful for example to timestamp notes inside an org file arbitrarily:

* [2009-10-29 Thu 17:14
 Bla Bla Bla

How could I do that? I searched for such function with apropos but couldn't find anything that fits.

Thanks,

Marcelo.