The shortcut is not Control and the plus sign
It is control semicolon.

Current date Select a cell and press CTRL+;
Current time Select a cell and press CTRL+SHIFT+;
Current date and time Select a cell and press CTRL+; then SPACE then
CTRL+SHIFT+;

"bency" wrote:

on a laptop that has no seperate numeric keyboard how how do I key control+
to get todays date ?