firebird

Select current date

I am new to Firebird. I come from a SQL Server background.

To get current date I use following query in SQL Server 

SELECT GETDATE()

I am looking for something similar in Firebird

Solution 
  • select 'Now' from rdb$database
-- returns 'Now'
select cast('Now' as date) from rdb$database
-- returns e.g. 2008-08-13
select cast('now' as time) from rdb$database
-- returns e.g. 14:20:19.6170
select cast('NOW' as timestamp) from rdb$database
-- returns e.g. 2008-08-13 14:20:19.6170

    Shorthand syntax for the last three statements:

    select date 'Now' from rdb$database
select time 'now' from rdb$database
select timestamp 'NOW' from rdb$database