SQLite now() Now” is a time string parameter in SQLite which is used to fetch the current date and time by various SQLite functions.
Syntax 1:
date('now')
Syntax 2:
time('now')
Syntax 3:
strftime(
Syntax 4:
strftime(
Syntax 5:
strftime(
Format:
| FORMAT | DESCRIPTION | VALUES |
| Year | 0000 to 9999 | |
| Week of year | 00 to 53 | |
| Day of week | 0 to 6, where 0 is Sunday | |
| Month of year | 01 to 12 | |
| Day of month | 00 to 31 | |
| Hour | 00 to 24 | |
| Minute | 00 to 25 | |
| Seconds | 00 to 59 | |
| Seconds | Since 1970-01-01 | |
| Fractional seconds | SS.SSS | |
| Day of year | 001 to 366 | |
| Julian day | Numeric value |
Example1:
SELECT date('now'); |
Output:
2019-08-05 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the current date.
Example 2:
SELECT date('now', 'start of month'); |
Output:
2019-08-01 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the first day of the month.
Example 3:
SELECT date('now', 'start of month','+1 month', '-1 day'); |
Output:
2019-08-31 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the last day of the month.
Example 4:
SELECT date('now','+2 years'); |
Output:
2021-08-05 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are adding 2 years to the current date.
Example 5:
SELECT date('now','+2 days'); |
Output:
2019-08-07 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are adding 2 days to the current date.
Example 6:
SELECT date('now','-2 days'); |
Output:
2019-08-03 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are subtracting 2 days from the current date.
Example 7:
SELECT datetime('now'); |
Output:
2019-08-05 12:00:07 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the current date and time.
Example 8:
SELECT julianday('now'); |
Output:
2458700.5 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the current date.
Example 9:
SELECT strftime('%Y %m %d', 'now'); |
Output:
2019-08-05 |
Explanation: In the above example, we are retrieving the current date.
