Hi Richard,
The Consent field doesn’t support replacing that merge tag, but you could use a Gravity Wiz Terms of Service for your consent.
You can insert the {date_mdy}
merge tag into The Terms and it will output correctly on the form.
If you don’t want to use a different field type, our Populate Anything Perk adds support for Live Merge Tags. Using those, you can use the {date_mdy}
field pretty much anywhere on the form by adding the @
symbol in front.