To display the current date on the shell you use the date command
[adrian@archlinux]$ date
Fri Jan 1 08:08:10 UTC 2016
So this format may not fit your need, therefore you would adjust the format by the +FORMAT parameter as described in the help
date +FORMAT
As an example do display the date in format yyyymmddhhmm you would type
[adrian@archlinux]$ date +%Y%m%d%H%M
which will display
201601010808
If you want to use the outcome of the command as value for further commands, just enclose them in `
[adrian@archlinux]$ script console_`date +%Y%m%d%H%M`.txt
Script started, file is console_201601010808.txt