Question

I know that SELECT Now() returns the current DateTime, but how can I just return the date, so instead of this:

Month.Day.Year.Hour.Minute.Second

I can just do:

Month.Day.Year

So what must I do to get the M.D.Y instead of M.D.Y.H.M.S in mysql?

Also, how can I get the H.M.S part as well?

Answer 1

SELECT CURDATE(); //is what you need

Please check this link for more information.

To format date in month/Day/Year, check this.

Something like this will work:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%m/%d/%Y');

If you want a dot(.) to separate the date like Month.Day.Year, you can do this:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(CURDATE(), '%m.%d.%Y');

To get the H.M.S part, you can do the following:

SELECT DATE_FORMAT(Now(), '%H.%i.%S');