Howto: create file with current date and time on linux

Question

I have a cron job for creating a gzip file:

mysqldump... | gzip -c > myfile..sql.gz

I want myfile to be of the format "time_date.sql.gz"

How do I create file with the current date and time?

Thanks

Answer 1

myfile_`date '+%F_%T'`.sql.gz