Functions for Working with Dates and Times
Most functions in this section accept an optional time zone argument, e.g. Europe/Amsterdam
. In this case, the time zone is the specified one instead of the local (default) one.
Example
SELECT
toDateTime('2016-06-15 23:00:00') AS time,
toDate(time) AS date_local,
toDate(time, 'Asia/Yekaterinburg') AS date_yekat,
toString(time, 'US/Samoa') AS time_samoa
┌────────────────time─┬─date_local─┬─date_yekat─┬─time_samoa──────────┐
│ 2016-06-15 23:00:00 │ 2016-06-15 │ 2016-06-16 │ 2016-06-15 09:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴─────────────────────┘
makeDate
Creates a Date
- from a year, month and day argument, or
- from a year and day of year argument.
Syntax
makeDate(year, month, day);
makeDate(year, day_of_year);
Alias:
MAKEDATE(year, month, day);
MAKEDATE(year, day_of_year);
Arguments
year
— Year. Integer, Float or Decimal.month
— Month. Integer, Float or Decimal.day
— Day. Integer, Float or Decimal.day_of_year
— Day of the year. Integer, Float or Decimal.
Returned value
- A date created from the arguments.
Type: Date.
Example
Create a Date from a year, month and day:
SELECT makeDate(2023, 2, 28) AS Date;
Result:
┌───────date─┐
│ 2023-02-28 │
└────────────┘
Create a Date from a year and day of year argument:
SELECT makeDate(2023, 42) AS Date;
Result:
┌───────date─┐
│ 2023-02-11 │
└────────────┘
makeDate32
Like makeDate but produces a Date32.
makeDateTime
Creates a DateTime from a year, month, day, hour, minute and second argument.
Syntax
makeDateTime(year, month, day, hour, minute, second[, timezone])
Arguments
year
— Year. Integer, Float or Decimal.month
— Month. Integer, Float or Decimal.day
— Day. Integer, Float or Decimal.hour
— Hour. Integer, Float or Decimal.minute
— Minute. Integer, Float or Decimal.second
— Second. Integer, Float or Decimal.timezone
— Timezone for the returned value (optional).
Returned value
- A date with time created from the arguments.
Type: DateTime.
Example
SELECT makeDateTime(2023, 2, 28, 17, 12, 33) AS DateTime;
Result:
┌────────────DateTime─┐
│ 2023-02-28 17:12:33 │
└─────────────────────┘
makeDateTime64
Like makeDateTime but produces a DateTime64.
Syntax
makeDateTime32(year, month, day, hour, minute, second[, fraction[, precision[, timezone]]])
timeZone
Returns the timezone of the current session, i.e. the value of setting session_timezone. If the function is executed in the context of a distributed table, then it generates a normal column with values relevant to each shard, otherwise it produces a constant value.
Syntax
timeZone()
Alias: timezone
.
Returned value
- Timezone.
Type: String.
See also
serverTimeZone
Returns the timezone of the server, i.e. the value of setting timezone. If the function is executed in the context of a distributed table, then it generates a normal column with values relevant to each shard. Otherwise, it produces a constant value.
Syntax
serverTimeZone()
Alias: serverTimezone
.
Returned value
- Timezone.
Type: String.
See also
toTimeZone
Converts a date or date with time to the specified time zone. Does not change the internal value (number of unix seconds) of the data, only the value's time zone attribute and the value's string representation changes.
Syntax
toTimezone(value, timezone)
Alias: toTimezone
.
Arguments
value
— Time or date and time. DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone for the returned value. String. This argument is a constant, becausetoTimezone
changes the timezone of a column (timezone is an attribute ofDateTime*
types).
Returned value
- Date and time.
Type: DateTime.
Example
SELECT toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00', 'UTC') AS time_utc,
toTypeName(time_utc) AS type_utc,
toInt32(time_utc) AS int32utc,
toTimeZone(time_utc, 'Asia/Yekaterinburg') AS time_yekat,
toTypeName(time_yekat) AS type_yekat,
toInt32(time_yekat) AS int32yekat,
toTimeZone(time_utc, 'US/Samoa') AS time_samoa,
toTypeName(time_samoa) AS type_samoa,
toInt32(time_samoa) AS int32samoa
FORMAT Vertical;
Result:
Row 1:
──────
time_utc: 2019-01-01 00:00:00
type_utc: DateTime('UTC')
int32utc: 1546300800
time_yekat: 2019-01-01 05:00:00
type_yekat: DateTime('Asia/Yekaterinburg')
int32yekat: 1546300800
time_samoa: 2018-12-31 13:00:00
type_samoa: DateTime('US/Samoa')
int32samoa: 1546300800
See Also
- formatDateTime - supports non-constant timezone.
- toString - supports non-constant timezone.
timeZoneOf
Returns the timezone name of DateTime or DateTime64 data types.
Syntax
timeZoneOf(value)
Alias: timezoneOf
.
Arguments
value
— Date and time. DateTime or DateTime64.
Returned value
- Timezone name.
Type: String.
Example
SELECT timezoneOf(now());
Result:
┌─timezoneOf(now())─┐
│ Etc/UTC │
└───────────────────┘
timeZoneOffset
Returns the timezone offset in seconds from UTC. The function daylight saving time and historical timezone changes at the specified date and time into account. The IANA timezone database is used to calculate the offset.
Syntax
timeZoneOffset(value)
Alias: timezoneOffset
.
Arguments
value
— Date and time. DateTime or DateTime64.
Returned value
- Offset from UTC in seconds.
Type: Int32.
Example
SELECT toDateTime('2021-04-21 10:20:30', 'America/New_York') AS Time, toTypeName(Time) AS Type,
timeZoneOffset(Time) AS Offset_in_seconds, (Offset_in_seconds / 3600) AS Offset_in_hours;
Result:
┌────────────────Time─┬─Type─────────────────────────┬─Offset_in_seconds─┬─Offset_in_hours─┐
│ 2021-04-21 10:20:30 │ DateTime('America/New_York') │ -14400 │ -4 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────────┘
toYear
Converts a date or date with time to the year number (AD) as UInt16 value.
Alias: YEAR
.
toQuarter
Converts a date or date with time to the quarter number as UInt8 value.
Alias: QUARTER
.
toMonth
Converts a date or date with time to the month number (1-12) as UInt8 value.
Alias: MONTH
.
toDayOfYear
Converts a date or date with time to the number of the day of the year (1-366) as UInt16 value.
Alias: DAYOFYEAR
.
toDayOfMonth
Converts a date or date with time to the number of the day in the month (1-31) as UInt8 value.
Aliases: DAYOFMONTH
, DAY
.
toDayOfWeek
Converts a date or date with time to the number of the day in the week as UInt8 value.
The two-argument form of toDayOfWeek()
enables you to specify whether the week starts on Monday or Sunday, and whether the return value should be in the range from 0 to 6 or 1 to 7. If the mode argument is omitted, the default mode is 0. The time zone of the date can be specified as the third argument.
Mode | First day of week | Range |
---|---|---|
0 | Monday | 1-7: Monday = 1, Tuesday = 2, ..., Sunday = 7 |
1 | Monday | 0-6: Monday = 0, Tuesday = 1, ..., Sunday = 6 |
2 | Sunday | 0-6: Sunday = 0, Monday = 1, ..., Saturday = 6 |
3 | Sunday | 1-7: Sunday = 1, Monday = 2, ..., Saturday = 7 |
Alias: DAYOFWEEK
.
Syntax
toDayOfWeek(t[, mode[, timezone]])
toHour
Converts a date with time the number of the hour in 24-hour time (0-23) as UInt8 value.
Assumes that if clocks are moved ahead, it is by one hour and occurs at 2 a.m., and if clocks are moved back, it is by one hour and occurs at 3 a.m. (which is not always true – even in Moscow the clocks were twice changed at a different time).
Alias: HOUR
.
toMinute
Converts a date with time to the number of the minute of the hour (0-59) as UInt8 value.
Alias: MINUTE
.
toSecond
Converts a date with time to the second in the minute (0-59) as UInt8 value. Leap seconds are not considered.
Alias: SECOND
.
toUnixTimestamp
Converts a string, a date or a date with time to the Unix Timestamp in UInt32
representation.
If the function is called with a string, it accepts an optional timezone argument.
Syntax
toUnixTimestamp(date)
toUnixTimestamp(str, [timezone])
Returned value
- Returns the unix timestamp.
Type: UInt32
.
Example
SELECT
'2017-11-05 08:07:47' AS dt_str,
toUnixTimestamp(dt_str) AS from_str,
toUnixTimestamp(dt_str, 'Asia/Tokyo') AS from_str_tokyo,
toUnixTimestamp(toDateTime(dt_str)) AS from_datetime,
toUnixTimestamp(toDateTime64(dt_str, 0)) AS from_datetime64,
toUnixTimestamp(toDate(dt_str)) AS from_date,
toUnixTimestamp(toDate32(dt_str)) AS from_date32
FORMAT Vertical;
Result:
Row 1:
──────
dt_str: 2017-11-05 08:07:47
from_str: 1509869267
from_str_tokyo: 1509836867
from_datetime: 1509869267
from_datetime64: 1509869267
from_date: 1509840000
from_date32: 1509840000
The return type of toStartOf*
, toLastDayOf*
, toMonday
, timeSlot
functions described below is determined by the configuration parameter enable_extended_results_for_datetime_functions which is 0
by default.
Behavior for
enable_extended_results_for_datetime_functions = 0
:- Functions
toStartOfYear
,toStartOfISOYear
,toStartOfQuarter
,toStartOfMonth
,toStartOfWeek
,toLastDayOfWeek
,toLastDayOfMonth
,toMonday
returnDate
orDateTime
. - Functions
toStartOfDay
,toStartOfHour
,toStartOfFifteenMinutes
,toStartOfTenMinutes
,toStartOfFiveMinutes
,toStartOfMinute
,timeSlot
returnDateTime
. Though these functions can take values of the extended typesDate32
andDateTime64
as an argument, passing them a time outside the normal range (year 1970 to 2149 forDate
/ 2106 forDateTime
) will produce wrong results.
- Functions
enable_extended_results_for_datetime_functions = 1
:- Functions
toStartOfYear
,toStartOfISOYear
,toStartOfQuarter
,toStartOfMonth
,toStartOfWeek
,toLastDayOfWeek
,toLastDayOfMonth
,toMonday
returnDate
orDateTime
if their argument is aDate
orDateTime
, and they returnDate32
orDateTime64
if their argument is aDate32
orDateTime64
. - Functions
toStartOfDay
,toStartOfHour
,toStartOfFifteenMinutes
,toStartOfTenMinutes
,toStartOfFiveMinutes
,toStartOfMinute
,timeSlot
returnDateTime
if their argument is aDate
orDateTime
, and they returnDateTime64
if their argument is aDate32
orDateTime64
.
- Functions
toStartOfYear
Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the year. Returns the date.
toStartOfISOYear
Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of ISO year. Returns the date.
toStartOfQuarter
Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the quarter. The first day of the quarter is either 1 January, 1 April, 1 July, or 1 October. Returns the date.
toStartOfMonth
Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the month. Returns the date.
The behavior of parsing incorrect dates is implementation specific. ClickHouse may return zero date, throw an exception or do “natural” overflow.
toLastDayOfMonth
Rounds a date, or date with time, to the last day of the month. Returns the date.
Alias: LAST_DAY
.
If toLastDayOfMonth
is called with an argument of type Date
greater then 2149-05-31, the result will be calculated from the argument 2149-05-31 instead.
toMonday
Rounds down a date, or date with time, to the nearest Monday. Returns the date.
toStartOfWeek
Rounds a date or date with time down to the nearest Sunday or Monday.
Returns the date.
The mode argument works exactly like the mode argument in function toWeek()
. If no mode is specified, mode is assumed as 0.
Syntax
toStartOfWeek(t[, mode[, timezone]])
toLastDayOfWeek
Rounds a date or date with time up to the nearest Saturday or Sunday.
Returns the date.
The mode argument works exactly like the mode argument in function toWeek()
. If no mode is specified, mode is assumed as 0.
Syntax
toLastDayOfWeek(t[, mode[, timezone]])
toStartOfDay
Rounds down a date with time to the start of the day.
toStartOfHour
Rounds down a date with time to the start of the hour.
toStartOfMinute
Rounds down a date with time to the start of the minute.
toStartOfSecond
Truncates sub-seconds.
Syntax
toStartOfSecond(value, [timezone])
Arguments
value
— Date and time. DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone for the returned value (optional). If not specified, the function uses the timezone of thevalue
parameter. String.
Returned value
- Input value without sub-seconds.
Type: DateTime64.
Examples
Query without timezone:
WITH toDateTime64('2020-01-01 10:20:30.999', 3) AS dt64
SELECT toStartOfSecond(dt64);
Result:
┌───toStartOfSecond(dt64)─┐
│ 2020-01-01 10:20:30.000 │
└─────────────────────────┘
Query with timezone:
WITH toDateTime64('2020-01-01 10:20:30.999', 3) AS dt64
SELECT toStartOfSecond(dt64, 'Asia/Istanbul');
Result:
┌─toStartOfSecond(dt64, 'Asia/Istanbul')─┐
│ 2020-01-01 13:20:30.000 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
See also
- Timezone server configuration parameter.
toStartOfFiveMinutes
Rounds down a date with time to the start of the five-minute interval.
toStartOfTenMinutes
Rounds down a date with time to the start of the ten-minute interval.
toStartOfFifteenMinutes
Rounds down the date with time to the start of the fifteen-minute interval.
toStartOfInterval(time_or_data, INTERVAL x unit [, time_zone])
This is a generalization of other functions named toStartOf*
. For example,
toStartOfInterval(t, INTERVAL 1 year)
returns the same as toStartOfYear(t)
,
toStartOfInterval(t, INTERVAL 1 month)
returns the same as toStartOfMonth(t)
,
toStartOfInterval(t, INTERVAL 1 day)
returns the same as toStartOfDay(t)
,
toStartOfInterval(t, INTERVAL 15 minute)
returns the same as toStartOfFifteenMinutes(t)
etc.
toTime
Converts a date with time to a certain fixed date, while preserving the time.
toRelativeYearNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the year, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeQuarterNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the quarter, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeMonthNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the month, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeWeekNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the week, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeDayNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the day, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeHourNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the hour, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeMinuteNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the minute, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toRelativeSecondNum
Converts a date, or date with time, to the number of the second, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.
toISOYear
Converts a date, or date with time, to a UInt16 number containing the ISO Year number.
toISOWeek
Converts a date, or date with time, to a UInt8 number containing the ISO Week number.
toWeek
This function returns the week number for date or datetime. The two-argument form of toWeek()
enables you to specify whether the week starts on Sunday or Monday and whether the return value should be in the range from 0 to 53 or from 1 to 53. If the mode argument is omitted, the default mode is 0.
toISOWeek()
is a compatibility function that is equivalent to toWeek(date,3)
.
The following table describes how the mode argument works.
Mode | First day of week | Range | Week 1 is the first week … |
---|---|---|---|
0 | Sunday | 0-53 | with a Sunday in this year |
1 | Monday | 0-53 | with 4 or more days this year |
2 | Sunday | 1-53 | with a Sunday in this year |
3 | Monday | 1-53 | with 4 or more days this year |
4 | Sunday | 0-53 | with 4 or more days this year |
5 | Monday | 0-53 | with a Monday in this year |
6 | Sunday | 1-53 | with 4 or more days this year |
7 | Monday | 1-53 | with a Monday in this year |
8 | Sunday | 1-53 | contains January 1 |
9 | Monday | 1-53 | contains January 1 |
For mode values with a meaning of “with 4 or more days this year,” weeks are numbered according to ISO 8601:1988:
If the week containing January 1 has 4 or more days in the new year, it is week 1.
Otherwise, it is the last week of the previous year, and the next week is week 1.
For mode values with a meaning of “contains January 1”, the week contains January 1 is week 1. It does not matter how many days in the new year the week contained, even if it contained only one day.
Syntax
toWeek(t[, mode[, time_zone]])
Arguments
t
– Date or DateTime.mode
– Optional parameter, Range of values is [0,9], default is 0.Timezone
– Optional parameter, it behaves like any other conversion function.
Example
SELECT toDate('2016-12-27') AS date, toWeek(date) AS week0, toWeek(date,1) AS week1, toWeek(date,9) AS week9;
┌───────date─┬─week0─┬─week1─┬─week9─┐
│ 2016-12-27 │ 52 │ 52 │ 1 │
└────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘
toYearWeek
Returns year and week for a date. The year in the result may be different from the year in the date argument for the first and the last week of the year.
The mode argument works like the mode argument to toWeek()
. For the single-argument syntax, a mode value of 0 is used.
toISOYear()
is a compatibility function that is equivalent to intDiv(toYearWeek(date,3),100)
.
The week number returned by toYearWeek()
can be different from what the toWeek()
returns. toWeek()
always returns week number in the context of the given year, and in case toWeek()
returns 0
, toYearWeek()
returns the value corresponding to the last week of previous year. See prev_yearWeek
in example below.
Syntax
toYearWeek(t[, mode[, timezone]])
Example
SELECT toDate('2016-12-27') AS date, toYearWeek(date) AS yearWeek0, toYearWeek(date,1) AS yearWeek1, toYearWeek(date,9) AS yearWeek9, toYearWeek(toDate('2022-01-01')) AS prev_yearWeek;
┌───────date─┬─yearWeek0─┬─yearWeek1─┬─yearWeek9─┬─prev_yearWeek─┐
│ 2016-12-27 │ 201652 │ 201652 │ 201701 │ 202152 │
└────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────────┘
toDaysSinceYearZero
Returns for a given date, the number of days passed since 1 January 0000 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar defined by ISO 8601. The calculation is the same as in MySQL's TO_DAYS()
function.
Syntax
toDaysSinceYearZero(date)
Aliases: TO_DAYS
Arguments
Returned value
The number of days passed since date 0000-01-01.
Type: UInt32.
Example
SELECT toDaysSinceYearZero(toDate('2023-09-08'));
Result:
┌─toDaysSinceYearZero(toDate('2023-09-08')))─┐
│ 713569 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
age
Returns the unit
component of the difference between startdate
and enddate
. The difference is calculated using a precision of 1 microsecond.
E.g. the difference between 2021-12-29
and 2022-01-01
is 3 days for day
unit, 0 months for month
unit, 0 years for year
unit.
For an alternative to age
, see function date\_diff
.
Syntax
age('unit', startdate, enddate, [timezone])
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval for result. String. Possible values:microsecond
microseconds
us
u
millisecond
milliseconds
ms
second
seconds
ss
s
minute
minutes
mi
n
hour
hours
hh
h
day
days
dd
d
week
weeks
wk
ww
month
months
mm
m
quarter
quarters
qq
q
year
years
yyyy
yy
startdate
— The first time value to subtract (the subtrahend). Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64.enddate
— The second time value to subtract from (the minuend). Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone name (optional). If specified, it is applied to bothstartdate
andenddate
. If not specified, timezones ofstartdate
andenddate
are used. If they are not the same, the result is unspecified. String.
Returned value
Difference between enddate
and startdate
expressed in unit
.
Type: Int.
Example
SELECT age('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:30:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'));
Result:
┌─age('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:30:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'))─┐
│ 24 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT
toDate('2022-01-01') AS e,
toDate('2021-12-29') AS s,
age('day', s, e) AS day_age,
age('month', s, e) AS month__age,
age('year', s, e) AS year_age;
Result:
┌──────────e─┬──────────s─┬─day_age─┬─month__age─┬─year_age─┐
│ 2022-01-01 │ 2021-12-29 │ 3 │ 0 │ 0 │
└────────────┴────────────┴─────────┴────────────┴──────────┘
date_diff
Returns the count of the specified unit
boundaries crossed between the startdate
and the enddate
.
The difference is calculated using relative units, e.g. the difference between 2021-12-29
and 2022-01-01
is 3 days for unit day
(see toRelativeDayNum), 1 month for unit month
(see toRelativeMonthNum) and 1 year for unit year
(see toRelativeYearNum).
If unit week
was specified, date\_diff
assumes that weeks start on Monday. Note that this behavior is different from that of function toWeek()
in which weeks start by default on Sunday.
For an alternative to date\_diff
, see function age
.
Syntax
date_diff('unit', startdate, enddate, [timezone])
Aliases: dateDiff
, DATE_DIFF
, timestampDiff
, timestamp_diff
, TIMESTAMP_DIFF
.
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval for result. String. Possible values:microsecond
microseconds
us
u
millisecond
milliseconds
ms
second
seconds
ss
s
minute
minutes
mi
n
hour
hours
hh
h
day
days
dd
d
week
weeks
wk
ww
month
months
mm
m
quarter
quarters
qq
q
year
years
yyyy
yy
startdate
— The first time value to subtract (the subtrahend). Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64.enddate
— The second time value to subtract from (the minuend). Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone name (optional). If specified, it is applied to bothstartdate
andenddate
. If not specified, timezones ofstartdate
andenddate
are used. If they are not the same, the result is unspecified. String.
Returned value
Difference between enddate
and startdate
expressed in unit
.
Type: Int.
Example
SELECT dateDiff('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:00:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'));
Result:
┌─dateDiff('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:00:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'))─┐
│ 25 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT
toDate('2022-01-01') AS e,
toDate('2021-12-29') AS s,
dateDiff('day', s, e) AS day_diff,
dateDiff('month', s, e) AS month__diff,
dateDiff('year', s, e) AS year_diff;
Result:
┌──────────e─┬──────────s─┬─day_diff─┬─month__diff─┬─year_diff─┐
│ 2022-01-01 │ 2021-12-29 │ 3 │ 1 │ 1 │
└────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴─────────────┴───────────┘
date_trunc
Truncates date and time data to the specified part of date.
Syntax
date_trunc(unit, value[, timezone])
Alias: dateTrunc
.
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval to truncate the result. String Literal. Possible values:second
minute
hour
day
week
month
quarter
year
value
— Date and time. DateTime or DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone name for the returned value (optional). If not specified, the function uses the timezone of thevalue
parameter. String.
Returned value
- Value, truncated to the specified part of date.
Type: DateTime.
Example
Query without timezone:
SELECT now(), date_trunc('hour', now());
Result:
┌───────────────now()─┬─date_trunc('hour', now())─┐
│ 2020-09-28 10:40:45 │ 2020-09-28 10:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘
Query with the specified timezone:
SELECT now(), date_trunc('hour', now(), 'Asia/Istanbul');
Result:
┌───────────────now()─┬─date_trunc('hour', now(), 'Asia/Istanbul')─┐
│ 2020-09-28 10:46:26 │ 2020-09-28 13:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────────────────┘
See Also
date_add
Adds the time interval or date interval to the provided date or date with time.
Syntax
date_add(unit, value, date)
Aliases: dateAdd
, DATE_ADD
.
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval to add. String. Possible values:second
minute
hour
day
week
month
quarter
year
value
— Value of interval to add. Int.date
— The date or date with time to whichvalue
is added. Date or DateTime.
Returned value
Date or date with time obtained by adding value
, expressed in unit
, to date
.
Example
SELECT date_add(YEAR, 3, toDate('2018-01-01'));
Result:
┌─plus(toDate('2018-01-01'), toIntervalYear(3))─┐
│ 2021-01-01 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘
date_sub
Subtracts the time interval or date interval from the provided date or date with time.
Syntax
date_sub(unit, value, date)
Aliases: dateSub
, DATE_SUB
.
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval to subtract. Note: The unit should be unquoted.Possible values:
second
minute
hour
day
week
month
quarter
year
value
— Value of interval to subtract. Int.date
— The date or date with time from whichvalue
is subtracted. Date or DateTime.
Returned value
Date or date with time obtained by subtracting value
, expressed in unit
, from date
.
Example
SELECT date_sub(YEAR, 3, toDate('2018-01-01'));
Result:
┌─minus(toDate('2018-01-01'), toIntervalYear(3))─┐
│ 2015-01-01 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
timestamp_add
Adds the specified time value with the provided date or date time value.
Syntax
timestamp_add(date, INTERVAL value unit)
Aliases: timeStampAdd
, TIMESTAMP_ADD
.
Arguments
value
— Value of interval to add. Int.unit
— The type of interval to add. String. Possible values:second
minute
hour
day
week
month
quarter
year
Returned value
Date or date with time with the specified value
expressed in unit
added to date
.
Example
select timestamp_add(toDate('2018-01-01'), INTERVAL 3 MONTH);
Result:
┌─plus(toDate('2018-01-01'), toIntervalMonth(3))─┐
│ 2018-04-01 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
timestamp_sub
Subtracts the time interval from the provided date or date with time.
Syntax
timestamp_sub(unit, value, date)
Aliases: timeStampSub
, TIMESTAMP_SUB
.
Arguments
unit
— The type of interval to subtract. String. Possible values:second
minute
hour
day
week
month
quarter
year
value
— Value of interval to subtract. Int.
Returned value
Date or date with time obtained by subtracting value
, expressed in unit
, from date
.
Example
select timestamp_sub(MONTH, 5, toDateTime('2018-12-18 01:02:03'));
Result:
┌─minus(toDateTime('2018-12-18 01:02:03'), toIntervalMonth(5))─┐
│ 2018-07-18 01:02:03 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
now
Returns the current date and time at the moment of query analysis. The function is a constant expression.
Alias: current_timestamp
.
Syntax
now([timezone])
Arguments
timezone
— Timezone name for the returned value (optional). String.
Returned value
- Current date and time.
Type: DateTime.
Example
Query without timezone:
SELECT now();
Result:
┌───────────────now()─┐
│ 2020-10-17 07:42:09 │
└─────────────────────┘
Query with the specified timezone:
SELECT now('Asia/Istanbul');
Result:
┌─now('Asia/Istanbul')─┐
│ 2020-10-17 10:42:23 │
└──────────────────────┘
now64
Returns the current date and time with sub-second precision at the moment of query analysis. The function is a constant expression.
Syntax
now64([scale], [timezone])
Arguments
scale
- Tick size (precision): 10-precision seconds. Valid range: [ 0 : 9 ]. Typically are used - 3 (default) (milliseconds), 6 (microseconds), 9 (nanoseconds).timezone
— Timezone name for the returned value (optional). String.
Returned value
- Current date and time with sub-second precision.
Type: DateTime64.
Example
SELECT now64(), now64(9, 'Asia/Istanbul');
Result:
┌─────────────────now64()─┬─────now64(9, 'Asia/Istanbul')─┐
│ 2022-08-21 19:34:26.196 │ 2022-08-21 22:34:26.196542766 │
└─────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
nowInBlock
Returns the current date and time at the moment of processing of each block of data. In contrast to the function now, it is not a constant expression, and the returned value will be different in different blocks for long-running queries.
It makes sense to use this function to generate the current time in long-running INSERT SELECT queries.
Syntax
nowInBlock([timezone])
Arguments
timezone
— Timezone name for the returned value (optional). String.
Returned value
- Current date and time at the moment of processing of each block of data.
Type: DateTime.
Example
SELECT
now(),
nowInBlock(),
sleep(1)
FROM numbers(3)
SETTINGS max_block_size = 1
FORMAT PrettyCompactMonoBlock
Result:
┌───────────────now()─┬────────nowInBlock()─┬─sleep(1)─┐
│ 2022-08-21 19:41:19 │ 2022-08-21 19:41:19 │ 0 │
│ 2022-08-21 19:41:19 │ 2022-08-21 19:41:20 │ 0 │
│ 2022-08-21 19:41:19 │ 2022-08-21 19:41:21 │ 0 │
└─────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────┘
today
Accepts zero arguments and returns the current date at one of the moments of query analysis. The same as ‘toDate(now())’.
Aliases: curdate
, current_date
.
yesterday
Accepts zero arguments and returns yesterday’s date at one of the moments of query analysis. The same as ‘today() - 1’.
timeSlot
Rounds the time to the half hour.
toYYYYMM
Converts a date or date with time to a UInt32 number containing the year and month number (YYYY * 100 + MM). Accepts a second optional timezone argument. If provided, the timezone must be a string constant.
Example
SELECT
toYYYYMM(now(), 'US/Eastern')
Result:
┌─toYYYYMM(now(), 'US/Eastern')─┐
│ 202303 │
└───────────────────────────────┘
toYYYYMMDD
Converts a date or date with time to a UInt32 number containing the year and month number (YYYY * 10000 + MM * 100 + DD). Accepts a second optional timezone argument. If provided, the timezone must be a string constant.
Example
SELECT
toYYYYMMDD(now(), 'US/Eastern')
Result:
┌─toYYYYMMDD(now(), 'US/Eastern')─┐
│ 20230302 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
toYYYYMMDDhhmmss
Converts a date or date with time to a UInt64 number containing the year and month number (YYYY * 10000000000 + MM * 100000000 + DD * 1000000 + hh * 10000 + mm * 100 + ss). Accepts a second optional timezone argument. If provided, the timezone must be a string constant.
Example
SELECT
toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(now(), 'US/Eastern')
Result:
┌─toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(now(), 'US/Eastern')─┐
│ 20230302112209 │
└───────────────────────────────────────┘
addYears, addMonths, addWeeks, addDays, addHours, addMinutes, addSeconds, addQuarters
Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime. For example:
WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addYears(date, 1) AS add_years_with_date,
addYears(date_time, 1) AS add_years_with_date_time
┌─add_years_with_date─┬─add_years_with_date_time─┐
│ 2019-01-01 │ 2019-01-01 00:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘
subtractYears, subtractMonths, subtractWeeks, subtractDays, subtractHours, subtractMinutes, subtractSeconds, subtractQuarters
Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime. For example:
WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractYears(date, 1) AS subtract_years_with_date,
subtractYears(date_time, 1) AS subtract_years_with_date_time
┌─subtract_years_with_date─┬─subtract_years_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-01 │ 2018-01-01 00:00:00 │
└──────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘
timeSlots(StartTime, Duration,[, Size])
For a time interval starting at ‘StartTime’ and continuing for ‘Duration’ seconds, it returns an array of moments in time, consisting of points from this interval rounded down to the ‘Size’ in seconds. ‘Size’ is an optional parameter set to 1800 (30 minutes) by default.
This is necessary, for example, when searching for pageviews in the corresponding session.
Accepts DateTime and DateTime64 as ’StartTime’ argument. For DateTime, ’Duration’ and ’Size’ arguments must be UInt32
. For ’DateTime64’ they must be Decimal64
.
Returns an array of DateTime/DateTime64 (return type matches the type of ’StartTime’). For DateTime64, the return value's scale can differ from the scale of ’StartTime’ --- the highest scale among all given arguments is taken.
Example:
SELECT timeSlots(toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:20:00'), toUInt32(600));
SELECT timeSlots(toDateTime('1980-12-12 21:01:02', 'UTC'), toUInt32(600), 299);
SELECT timeSlots(toDateTime64('1980-12-12 21:01:02.1234', 4, 'UTC'), toDecimal64(600.1, 1), toDecimal64(299, 0));
┌─timeSlots(toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:20:00'), toUInt32(600))─┐
│ ['2012-01-01 12:00:00','2012-01-01 12:30:00'] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─timeSlots(toDateTime('1980-12-12 21:01:02', 'UTC'), toUInt32(600), 299)─┐
│ ['1980-12-12 20:56:13','1980-12-12 21:01:12','1980-12-12 21:06:11'] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌─timeSlots(toDateTime64('1980-12-12 21:01:02.1234', 4, 'UTC'), toDecimal64(600.1, 1), toDecimal64(299, 0))─┐
│ ['1980-12-12 20:56:13.0000','1980-12-12 21:01:12.0000','1980-12-12 21:06:11.0000'] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
formatDateTime
Formats a Time according to the given Format string. Format is a constant expression, so you cannot have multiple formats for a single result column.
formatDateTime uses MySQL datetime format style, refer to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format.
The opposite operation of this function is parseDateTime.
Alias: DATE_FORMAT
.
Syntax
formatDateTime(Time, Format[, Timezone])
Returned value(s)
Returns time and date values according to the determined format.
Replacement fields
Using replacement fields, you can define a pattern for the resulting string. “Example” column shows formatting result for 2018-01-02 22:33:44
.
Placeholder | Description | Example |
---|---|---|
%a | abbreviated weekday name (Mon-Sun) | Mon |
%b | abbreviated month name (Jan-Dec) | Jan |
%c | month as an integer number (01-12) | 01 |
%C | year divided by 100 and truncated to integer (00-99) | 20 |
%d | day of the month, zero-padded (01-31) | 02 |
%D | Short MM/DD/YY date, equivalent to %m/%d/%y | 01/02/18 |
%e | day of the month, space-padded (1-31) | 2 |
%f | fractional second, see 'Note 1' below | 1234560 |
%F | short YYYY-MM-DD date, equivalent to %Y-%m-%d | 2018-01-02 |
%g | two-digit year format, aligned to ISO 8601, abbreviated from four-digit notation | 18 |
%G | four-digit year format for ISO week number, calculated from the week-based year defined by the ISO 8601 standard, normally useful only with %V | 2018 |
%h | hour in 12h format (01-12) | 09 |
%H | hour in 24h format (00-23) | 22 |
%i | minute (00-59) | 33 |
%I | hour in 12h format (01-12) | 10 |
%j | day of the year (001-366) | 002 |
%k | hour in 24h format (00-23) | 22 |
%l | hour in 12h format (01-12) | 09 |
%m | month as an integer number (01-12) | 01 |
%M | full month name (January-December), see 'Note 2' below | January |
%n | new-line character (‘’) | |
%p | AM or PM designation | PM |
%Q | Quarter (1-4) | 1 |
%r | 12-hour HH:MM AM/PM time, equivalent to %h:%i %p | 10:30 PM |
%R | 24-hour HH:MM time, equivalent to %H:%i | 22:33 |
%s | second (00-59) | 44 |
%S | second (00-59) | 44 |
%t | horizontal-tab character (’) | |
%T | ISO 8601 time format (HH:MM:SS), equivalent to %H:%i:%S | 22:33:44 |
%u | ISO 8601 weekday as number with Monday as 1 (1-7) | 2 |
%V | ISO 8601 week number (01-53) | 01 |
%w | weekday as a integer number with Sunday as 0 (0-6) | 2 |
%W | full weekday name (Monday-Sunday) | Monday |
%y | Year, last two digits (00-99) | 18 |
%Y | Year | 2018 |
%z | Time offset from UTC as +HHMM or -HHMM | -0500 |
%% | a % sign | % |
Note 1: In ClickHouse versions earlier than v23.4, %f
prints a single zero (0) if the formatted value is a Date, Date32 or DateTime (which have no fractional seconds) or a DateTime64 with a precision of 0. The previous behavior can be restored using setting formatdatetime_f_prints_single_zero = 1
.
Note 2: In ClickHouse versions earlier than v23.4, %M
prints the minute (00-59) instead of the full month name (January-December). The previous behavior can be restored using setting formatdatetime_parsedatetime_m_is_month_name = 0
.
Example
SELECT formatDateTime(toDate('2010-01-04'), '%g')
Result:
┌─formatDateTime(toDate('2010-01-04'), '%g')─┐
│ 10 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT formatDateTime(toDateTime64('2010-01-04 12:34:56.123456', 7), '%f')
Result:
┌─formatDateTime(toDateTime64('2010-01-04 12:34:56.123456', 7), '%f')─┐
│ 1234560 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Additionally, the formatDateTime
function can take a third String argument containing the name of the time zone. Example: Asia/Istanbul
. In this case, the time is formatted according to the specified time zone.
Example
SELECT
now() AS ts,
time_zone,
formatDateTime(ts, '%T', time_zone) AS str_tz_time
FROM system.time_zones
WHERE time_zone LIKE 'Europe%'
LIMIT 10
┌──────────────────ts─┬─time_zone─────────┬─str_tz_time─┐
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Amsterdam │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Andorra │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Astrakhan │ 23:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Athens │ 22:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Belfast │ 20:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Belgrade │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Berlin │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Bratislava │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Brussels │ 21:13:40 │
│ 2023-09-08 19:13:40 │ Europe/Bucharest │ 22:13:40 │
└─────────────────────┴───────────────────┴─────────────┘
See Also
formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax
Similar to formatDateTime, except that it formats datetime in Joda style instead of MySQL style. Refer to https://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html.
The opposite operation of this function is parseDateTimeInJodaSyntax.
Replacement fields
Using replacement fields, you can define a pattern for the resulting string.
Placeholder | Description | Presentation | Examples |
---|---|---|---|
G | era | text | AD |
C | century of era (>=0) | number | 20 |
Y | year of era (>=0) | year | 1996 |
x | weekyear (not supported yet) | year | 1996 |
w | week of weekyear (not supported yet) | number | 27 |
e | day of week | number | 2 |
E | day of week | text | Tuesday; Tue |
y | year | year | 1996 |
D | day of year | number | 189 |
M | month of year | month | July; Jul; 07 |
d | day of month | number | 10 |
a | halfday of day | text | PM |
K | hour of halfday (0~11) | number | 0 |
h | clockhour of halfday (1~12) | number | 12 |
H | hour of day (0~23) | number | 0 |
k | clockhour of day (1~24) | number | 24 |
m | minute of hour | number | 30 |
s | second of minute | number | 55 |
S | fraction of second (not supported yet) | number | 978 |
z | time zone (short name not supported yet) | text | Pacific Standard Time; PST |
Z | time zone offset/id (not supported yet) | zone | -0800; -08:00; America/Los_Angeles |
' | escape for text | delimiter | |
'' | single quote | literal | ' |
Example
SELECT formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax(toDateTime('2010-01-04 12:34:56'), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')
Result:
┌─formatDateTimeInJodaSyntax(toDateTime('2010-01-04 12:34:56'), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss')─┐
│ 2010-01-04 12:34:56 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
dateName
Returns specified part of date.
Syntax
dateName(date_part, date)
Arguments
date_part
— Date part. Possible values: 'year', 'quarter', 'month', 'week', 'dayofyear', 'day', 'weekday', 'hour', 'minute', 'second'. String.date
— Date. Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64.timezone
— Timezone. Optional. String.
Returned value
- The specified part of date.
Type: String
Example
WITH toDateTime('2021-04-14 11:22:33') AS date_value
SELECT
dateName('year', date_value),
dateName('month', date_value),
dateName('day', date_value);
Result:
┌─dateName('year', date_value)─┬─dateName('month', date_value)─┬─dateName('day', date_value)─┐
│ 2021 │ April │ 14 │
└──────────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
monthName
Returns name of the month.
Syntax
monthName(date)
Arguments
Returned value
- The name of the month.
Type: String
Example
WITH toDateTime('2021-04-14 11:22:33') AS date_value
SELECT monthName(date_value);
Result:
┌─monthName(date_value)─┐
│ April │
└───────────────────────┘
fromUnixTimestamp
Function converts Unix timestamp to a calendar date and a time of a day. When there is only a single argument of Integer type, it acts in the same way as toDateTime and return DateTime type.
fromUnixTimestamp uses MySQL datetime format style, refer to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date-format.
Alias: FROM_UNIXTIME
.
Example:
SELECT fromUnixTimestamp(423543535);
Result:
┌─fromUnixTimestamp(423543535)─┐
│ 1983-06-04 10:58:55 │
└──────────────────────────────┘
When there are two or three arguments, the first an Integer, Date, Date32, DateTime or DateTime64, the second a constant format string and the third an optional constant time zone string — it acts in the same way as formatDateTime and return String type.
For example:
SELECT fromUnixTimestamp(1234334543, '%Y-%m-%d %R:%S') AS DateTime;
┌─DateTime────────────┐
│ 2009-02-11 14:42:23 │
└─────────────────────┘
See Also
fromUnixTimestampInJodaSyntax
Similar to fromUnixTimestamp, except that it formats time in Joda style instead of MySQL style. Refer to https://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/format/DateTimeFormat.html.
Example:
SELECT fromUnixTimestampInJodaSyntax(1669804872, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss', 'UTC');
Result:
┌─fromUnixTimestampInJodaSyntax(1669804872, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss', 'UTC')────┐
│ 2022-11-30 10:41:12 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
toModifiedJulianDay
Converts a Proleptic Gregorian calendar date in text form YYYY-MM-DD
to a Modified Julian Day number in Int32. This function supports date from 0000-01-01
to 9999-12-31
. It raises an exception if the argument cannot be parsed as a date, or the date is invalid.
Syntax
toModifiedJulianDay(date)
Arguments
date
— Date in text form. String or FixedString.
Returned value
- Modified Julian Day number.
Type: Int32.
Example
SELECT toModifiedJulianDay('2020-01-01');
Result:
┌─toModifiedJulianDay('2020-01-01')─┐
│ 58849 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
toModifiedJulianDayOrNull
Similar to toModifiedJulianDay(), but instead of raising exceptions it returns NULL
.
Syntax
toModifiedJulianDayOrNull(date)
Arguments
date
— Date in text form. String or FixedString.
Returned value
- Modified Julian Day number.
Type: Nullable(Int32).
Example
SELECT toModifiedJulianDayOrNull('2020-01-01');
Result:
┌─toModifiedJulianDayOrNull('2020-01-01')─┐
│ 58849 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
fromModifiedJulianDay
Converts a Modified Julian Day number to a Proleptic Gregorian calendar date in text form YYYY-MM-DD
. This function supports day number from -678941
to 2973119
(which represent 0000-01-01 and 9999-12-31 respectively). It raises an exception if the day number is outside of the supported range.
Syntax
fromModifiedJulianDay(day)
Arguments
day
— Modified Julian Day number. Any integral types.
Returned value
- Date in text form.
Type: String
Example
SELECT fromModifiedJulianDay(58849);
Result:
┌─fromModifiedJulianDay(58849)─┐
│ 2020-01-01 │
└──────────────────────────────┘
fromModifiedJulianDayOrNull
Similar to fromModifiedJulianDayOrNull(), but instead of raising exceptions it returns NULL
.
Syntax
fromModifiedJulianDayOrNull(day)
Arguments
day
— Modified Julian Day number. Any integral types.
Returned value
- Date in text form.
Type: Nullable(String)
Example
SELECT fromModifiedJulianDayOrNull(58849);
Result:
┌─fromModifiedJulianDayOrNull(58849)─┐
│ 2020-01-01 │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
toUTCTimestamp
Convert DateTime/DateTime64 type value from other time zone to UTC timezone timestamp
Syntax
toUTCTimestamp(time_val, time_zone)
Arguments
time_val
— A DateTime/DateTime64 type const value or a expression . DateTime/DateTime64 typestime_zone
— A String type const value or a expression represent the time zone. String types
Returned value
- DateTime/DateTime64 in text form
Example
SELECT toUTCTimestamp(toDateTime('2023-03-16'), 'Asia/Shanghai');
Result:
┌─toUTCTimestamp(toDateTime('2023-03-16'),'Asia/Shanghai')┐
│ 2023-03-15 16:00:00 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
fromUTCTimestamp
Convert DateTime/DateTime64 type value from UTC timezone to other time zone timestamp
Syntax
fromUTCTimestamp(time_val, time_zone)
Arguments
time_val
— A DateTime/DateTime64 type const value or a expression . DateTime/DateTime64 typestime_zone
— A String type const value or a expression represent the time zone. String types
Returned value
- DateTime/DateTime64 in text form
Example
SELECT fromUTCTimestamp(toDateTime64('2023-03-16 10:00:00', 3), 'Asia/Shanghai');
Result:
┌─fromUTCTimestamp(toDateTime64('2023-03-16 10:00:00',3),'Asia/Shanghai')─┐
│ 2023-03-16 18:00:00.000 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘