I look up his article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lane_Craig
Divine eternity
Craig argues that God existed in a timeless state causally prior to creation,[96] but has existed in a temporal state beginning with creation, by virtue of his knowledge of tensed facts and his interactions with events.[97] He gives two arguments in support of that view. First, he says that, given his tensed view of time, God cannot be timeless once he has created a temporal universe, since, after that point, he is related to time through his interactions and through causing events in time.[97] Second, Craig says that as a feature of his omniscience, God must know the truth related to tensed facts about the world, such as whether the statement "Today is January 15th" is true or not or what is happening right now.[95][98][99][100][b]
The answer on the omniscience front would be that "today" and "right now" are relative terms to whoever is speaking.
So, God eternally knows what is happening the "right now" that I write in and those presumably different "right nows" in which you read this.
As to interaction with time, I like to make an image as of "God's timeline" ... and say it's kind of perpendicular to our timeline. Any given "moment" in God's "timeline" all of the created timeline is laid out before Him, and He is able to interact with any point in it. And all of them at once — which is why He doesn't need a timeline, but that was, as said, an image./HGL
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