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Hi all, is there a way to pass in an automation action the current formatted date (something like now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d')) as deployment parameter with jinja templating syntax?

accepts_dt_flow.py

hi <@U048SB4DC8G> - yes!

you can do this programmatically as I have, or configure the automation as normal in the UI

which gives something like
```08:04:58.829 | INFO    | prefect.flow_runs.runner - Opening process...
08:04:59.994 | INFO    | Flow run 'mauve-angelfish' - Downloading flow code from storage at '.'
08:05:00.540 | INFO    | Flow run 'mauve-angelfish' - 2024-01-03 14:04:25.534790+00:00 <class 'datetime.datetime'>
08:05:01.162 | INFO    | Flow run 'mauve-angelfish' - Finished in state Completed()
08:05:01.721 | INFO    | prefect.flow_runs.runner - Process for flow run 'mauve-angelfish' exited cleanly.```
where the 2 key points are:
• `parameters` accepts jinja templates that will be rendered with the triggering event
• flow run parameters are cast into the expected type (if possible), so even if you hard-coded a isoformat string for `dt` in `parameters` provided to `DeploymentTrigger` (not that you'd want to), the flow run would cast that to a `datetime` before entering the flow run context