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<refentry id="fn_curdate">
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>curdate</refentrytitle>
<refmiscinfo>time</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname>curdate</refname>
<refname>curtime</refname>
<refname>curdatetime</refname>
<refpurpose>get current date and time</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<funcsynopsis id="fsyn_curdate">
<funcprototype id="fproto_curdate">
<funcdef>datetime <function>curdate</function></funcdef>
<paramdef></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsis id="fsyn_curdatetime">
<funcprototype id="fproto_curdatetime">
<funcdef>datetime <function>curdatetime</function></funcdef>
<paramdef></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
<funcsynopsis id="fsyn_curtime">
<funcprototype id="fproto_curtime">
<funcdef>time <function>curtime</function></funcdef>
<paramdef></paramdef>
</funcprototype>
</funcsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id="desc_curdate"><title>Description</title>
<para>These functions return the current date or time as a date,
time or datetime, respectively. Internally they all return the
same value but data type reported to client differs.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="params_curdate"><title>Parameters</title>
<para>None.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="ret_curdate"><title>Return Types</title>
<para>In a result set to client, the column types reported are as follows: <type>TIME</type> for <function>curtime</function>, <type>DATE</type> for <function>curdate</function> and <type>DATETIME</type> for <function>curdatetime</function>.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="errors_curdate"><title>Errors</title>
<para>These functions do not signal errors.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="examples_curdate"><title>Examples</title>
<example id="ex_curdate"><title>Simple example</title>
<para>Get current date in different datatypes</para>
<screen>SQL> select curdate(), curtime(), curdatetime();
callret callret callret
DATE TIME BINARY
_______________________________________________________________________________
2001.10.12 11:21.51 2001-10-12 11:21:51
</screen>
</example>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="seealso_curdate"><title>See Also</title>
<para><link linkend="fn_now"><function>now</function></link></para>
<para><link linkend="fn_stringdate"><function>stringdate</function></link></para>
<para><link linkend="fn_datestring"><function>datestring</function></link></para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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