The advice by @Guy is correct, you can access the creation timestamp of the stack from the stack properties.
If you still need to specify tags as parameters then you can do it the following way. Currently the JSON syntax supports an extremely limited set of functions. Because of this the possibilities for dynamically modifying your templates are very tiny. The only way I see to introduce this the tag you want is by adding another parameter to the template itself. Depending on the way you initialize the stack, you can script the parameter to be specified dynamically or provide it in the web console.
For example, if you have this in your template:
"Parameters" : {
"CreationDate" : {
"Description" : "Date",
"Type" : "String",
"Default" : "2013-03-20 21:15:00",
"AllowedPattern" : "^\\d{4}(-\\d{2}){2} (\\d{2}:){2}\\d{2}$",
"ConstraintDescription" : "Date and time of creation"
}
},
You can later reference it using the Ref keyword in the tags like this:
"Tags" : [ { "Key" : "Owner", "Value" : "my name" },
{ "Key" : "Name", "Value" : "instance name" },
{ "Key" : "DateCreated", "Value" : { "Ref" : "CreationDate" } }
],
It is not trivial to automatically assign the current time if you create the stack from the AWS console, but if you use the CLI tools you can call cfn-create-stack like this:
cfn-create-stack MyStack --template-file My.template --parameters "CreationDate=$(date +'%F %T')"
Hope this helps!