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MySQL Date and Time functions

Date and Time functions

Functions Description
ADDDATE() MySQL ADDDATE() adds a time value with a date.
ADDTIME() In MySQL the ADDTIME() returns a time or datetime after adding a time value with a time or datetime.
CONVERT_TZ() In MySQL the CONVERT_TZ() returns a resulting value after converting a datetime value from a time zone specified as the second argument to the time zone specified as the third argument.
CURDATE() In MySQL the CURDATE() returns the current date in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format or 'YYYYMMDD' format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.
CURRENT_DATE() In MySQL the CURRENT_DATE returns the current date in ‘YYYY-MM-DD’ format or YYYYMMDD format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.
CURRENT_TIME() In MySQL the CURRENT_TIME() returns the current time in ‘HH:MM:SS’ format or HHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() In MySQL the CURRENT_TIEMSTAMP returns the current date and time in ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ format or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.
CURTIME() In MySQL the CURTIME() returns the value of current time in ‘HH:MM:SS’ format or HHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on whether numeric or string is used in the function.
DATE_ADD() MySQL DATE_ADD() adds time values (as intervals) to a date value. The ADDDATE() is the synonym of DATE_ADD().
DATE_FORMAT() MySQL DATE_FORMAT() formats a date as specified in the argument. A list of format specifiers given bellow may be used to format a date.
DATE_SUB() MySql date_sub() function subtract a time value (as interval) from a date.
DATE() MySQL DATE() takes the date part out from a datetime expression.
DATEDIFF() MySQL DATEDIFF() returns the number of days between two dates or datetimes.
DAY() MySQL DAY() returns the day of the month for a specified date.
DAYNAME() MySQL DAYNAME() returns the name of the week day of a date specified in the argument.
DAY OF MONTH() MySQL DAYOFMONTH() returns the day of the month for a given date.
DAY OF WEEK() MySQL DAYOFWEEK() returns the week day number (1 for Sunday,2 for Monday …… 7 for Saturday ) for a date specified as an argument.
DAY OF YEAR() MySQL DAYOFYEAR() returns day of the year for a date. The return value is within the range of 1 to 366.
EXTRACT() MySQL EXTRACT() extracts a part of a given date.
FROM_DAYS() MySQL FROM_DAYS() returns a date against a datevalue.
FROM_UNIXTIME() MySQL FROM_UNIXTIME() returns a date /datetime from a version of unix_timestamp.
GET_FORMAT() MySQL GET_FORMAT() converts a date or time or datetime in a formatted manner as specified in the argument.
HOUR() MySQL HOUR() returns the hour of a time.
LAST_DAY() MySQL LAST_DAY() returns the last day of the corresponding month for a date or datetime value.
LOCALTIME() MySQL LOCALTIME returns the value of current date and time in ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ format or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the context (numeric or string) of the function.
LOCALTIMESTAMP() MySQL LOCALTIMESTAMP returns the value of current date and time in ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ format or YYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the context (numeric or string) of the function.
MAKEDATE() MySQL MAKEDATE() returns a date by taking a value of a year and a number of days. The number of days must be greater than 0 otherwise a NULL will be returned.
MAKETIME() MySQL MAKETIME() makes and returns a time value from a given hour, minute and seconds.
MICROSECOND() MySQL MICROSECOND() returns microseconds from the time or datetime expression.
MINUTE() MySQL MINUTE() returns a minute from a time or datetime value.
MONTH() MySQL MONTH() returns the month for the date within a range of 1 to 12 ( January to December).
MONTHNAME() MySQL MONTHNAME() returns the full name of the month for a given date.
NOW() MySQL NOW() returns the value of current date and time in ‘YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS’ format or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the context (numeric or string) of the function.
PERIOD_ADD() MySQL PERIOD_ADD() adds a number of months with a period and returns the value in the format YYYYMM OR YYMM. Remember that the format YYYYMM and YYMM are not date values.
PERIOD_DIFF() MySQL PERIOD_DIFF() returns the difference between two periods.
QUARTER() MySQL QUARTER() returns the quarter of the year for a date.
SEC_TO_TIME() MySQL SEC_TO_TIME() returns a time value by converting the seconds specified in the argument.
SECOND() MySQL SECOND() returns the second for a time.
STR_TO_DATE() MySQL STR_TO_DATE() returns a datetime value by taking a string and a specific format string as arguments.
SUBDATE() MySQL SUBDATAE() subtracts a time value (as interval) from a given date.
SUBTIME() MySQL SUBTIME() subtracts one datetime value from another.
SYSDATE() MySQL SYSDATE() returns the current date and time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the context of the function.
TIME_FORMAT() MySQL TIME_FORMAT() converts a time in a formatted string using the format specifiers.
TIME_TO_SEC() MySQL TIME_TO_SEC() converts a time value in to seconds.
TIME() MySQL TIME() extracts the time part of a time or datetime expression as string format.
TIMEDIFF() MySQL TIMEDIFF() returns the differences between two time or datetime expressions.
TIMESTAMP() MySQL TIMESTAMP() returns a datetime value against a date or datetime expression.
TIMESTAMPADD() MySQL TIMESTAMPADD() adds time value with a date or datetime value.
TIMESTAMPDIFF() MySQL the TIMESTAMPDIFF() returns a value after subtracting a datetime expression from another.
TO_DAYS() MySQL TO_DAYS() returns number of days between a given date and year 0.
UNIX_TIMESTAMP() MySQL UNIX_TIMESTAMP() returns a Unix timestamp in seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' UTC as an unsigned integer if no arguments are passed with UNIT_TIMESTAMP().
UTC_DATE() MySQL UTC_DATE returns the current UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) date as a value in 'YYYY-MM-DD' or YYYYMMDD format depending on the context of the function i.e. in a string or numeric context.
UTC_TIME() MySQL UTC_TIME returns the current UTC time as a value in 'HH:MM:SS' or HHMMSS format depending on the context of the function i.e. in a string or numeric context.
UTC_TIMESTAMP() In MySQL the UTC_TIMESTAMP returns the current UTC date and time as a value in 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS' or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu format depending on the usage of the function i.e. in a string or numeric context.
WEEK() MySQL WEEK() returns the week number for a given date.
WEEKDAY() MySQL WEEKDAY() returns the index of the day in a week for a given date (0 for Monday, 1 for Tuesday and ......6 for Sunday).
WEEK OF YEAR() MySQL WEEKOFYEAR() returns the calender week (as a number) of a given date.
YEAR() MySQL YEAR() returns the year for a given date.
YEARWEEK() MySQL YEARWEEK() returns year and week number for a given date.

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