Today means "the current day", so if you're asking what day of the week it is, it can only be in present tense, since it's still that day for the whole 24 hours. 3 “earlier today” is a totally correct way to refer to a point in time between the beginning of the day and the current time. Nov 20, 2014the 2002 reference grammar by huddleston and pullum et al., the cambridge grammar of the english language, would consider words like yesterday, today, tonight, and tomorrow as.
Apr 19, 2011neither are clauses, but "today in the afternoon" is grammatical (adverbial phrase of time), while "today afternoon" is not. Oct 31, 201114 nowadays and today are both perfectly acceptable. Feb 29, 2016two other options (in addition to "as from today," "from today," and "effective today") are "beginning today" and "as of today." these may be more u.s.-idiomatic forms than british-idiomatic.
Jun 10, 2015the phrase our today's meeting is commonly used in indian english, even though other dialects of english frown upon it. The mentioned examples in the comments of our today's specials.