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Date & Times

Notice: Some of the examples below are referenced from ClickHouse Documentation but have been adapted and modified to work in ByConity.

addDays

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

addDays(date, interval)
addDays(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addDays(date, 1) AS add_days_with_date,
addDays(date_time, 1) AS add_days_with_date_time
┌─add_days_with_date─┬─add_days_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-02 │ 2018-01-02 00:00:00 │
└────────────────────┴─────────────────────────┘

addHours

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

addHours(date, interval)
addHours(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addHours(date, 1) AS add_hours_with_date,
addHours(date_time, 1) AS add_hours_with_date_time
┌─add_hours_with_date─┬─add_hours_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-01 01:00:00 │ 2018-01-01 01:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

addMinutes

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

addMinutes(date, interval)
addMinutes(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addMinutes(date, 1) AS add_minutes_with_date,
addMinutes(date_time, 1) AS add_minutes_with_date_time
┌─add_minutes_with_date─┬─add_minutes_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-01 00:01:00 │ 2018-01-01 00:01:00 │
└───────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

addMonths

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime. For example:

Syntax

addMonths(date, interval)
addMonths(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addMonths(date, 1) AS add_months_with_date,
addMonths(date_time, 1) AS add_months_with_date_time
┌─add_months_with_date─┬─add_months_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-02-01 │ 2018-02-01 00:00:00 │
└──────────────────────┴───────────────────────────┘

addQuarters

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

addQuarters(date, interval)
addQuarters(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addQuarters(date, 1) AS add_quarters_with_date,
addQuarters(date_time, 1) AS add_quarters_with_date_time
┌─add_quarters_with_date─┬─add_quarters_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-04-01 │ 2018-04-01 00:00:00 │
└────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

addSeconds

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime. For example:

Syntax

addSeconds(date, interval)
addSeconds(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addSeconds(date, 1) AS add_seconds_with_date,
addSeconds(date_time, 1) AS add_seconds_with_date_time
┌─add_seconds_with_date─┬─add_seconds_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-01 00:00:01 │ 2018-01-01 00:00:01 │
└───────────────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

addWeeks

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

addWeeks(date, interval)
addWeeks(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2018-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
addWeeks(date, 1) AS add_weeks_with_date,
addWeeks(date_time, 1) AS add_weeks_with_date_time
┌─add_weeks_with_date─┬─add_weeks_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-01-08 │ 2018-01-08 00:00:00 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

addYears

Function adds a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime. For example:

Syntax

addYears(date, interval)
addYears(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

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 │
└─────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┘

dateDiff

Returns the difference between two dates or dates with time values.

Syntax

dateDiff('unit', startdate, enddate, [timezone])

Arguments

  • unit — The type of interval for result. String. Possible values:
    • second
    • minute
    • hour
    • day
    • week
    • month
    • quarter
    • year
  • startdate — The first time value to subtract (the subtrahend). Date or DateTime.
  • enddate — The second time value to subtract from (the minuend). Date or DateTime.
  • timezone — Timezone name (optional). If specified, it is applied to both startdate and enddate. If not specified, timezones of startdate and enddate are used. If they are not the same, the result is unspecified. String.

Example

SELECT dateDiff('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:00:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'));
┌─dateDiff('hour', toDateTime('2018-01-01 22:00:00'), toDateTime('2018-01-02 23:00:00'))─┐
│ 25 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

date_add

Adds the time interval or date interval to the provided date or date with time.

Syntax

date_add(date, value)
date_add(datetime, value [,timezone])

Arguments

  • date — The date or date with time to which value is added. Date or DateTime.
  • timezone - The timezone argument is allowed only when the 1st argument has the type DateTime

Returned value Date or date with time obtained by adding value.

Type: Date or DateTime.

Example

SELECT date_add(toDate('2018-01-01'),3);
┌─date_add(toDate('2018-01-01'), 3)─┐
│ 2018-01-04 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT date_add(toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00'), 3, 'UTC');
┌─date_add(toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00'), 3, 'UTC')─┐
│ 2018-01-03 16:00:00 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

date_sub

Subtracts the time interval or date interval from the provided date or date with time.

Syntax

date_sub(date, value)
date_sub(datetime, value [,timezone])

Arguments

  • date — The date or date with time to which value is added. Date or DateTime.
  • timezone - The timezone argument is allowed only when the 1st argument has the type DateTime

Returned value Date or date with time obtained by subtracting value.

Type: Date or DateTime.

Example

SELECT date_sub(toDate('2018-01-01'),3);
┌─date_sub(toDate('2018-01-01'), 3)─┐
│ 2017-12-29 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT date_sub(toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00'), 3, 'UTC');
┌─date_sub(toDateTime('2018-01-01 00:00:00'), 3, 'UTC')─┐
│ 2017-12-28 16:00:00 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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.

Syntax

formatDateTime(Time, Format\[, Timezone\])

Arguments

  • Time - Date/DateTime
  • Format - Format pattern

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 .

PlaceholderDescriptionExample
%Cyear divided by 100 and truncated to integer (00-99)20
%dday of the month, zero-padded (01-31)02
%DShort MM/DD/YY date, equivalent to %m/%d/%y01/02/18
%eday of the month, space-padded ( 1-31)2
%Fshort YYYY-MM-DD date, equivalent to %Y-%m-%d2018-01-02
%Hhour in 24h format (00-23)22
%Ihour in 12h format (01-12)10
%jday of the year (001-366)002
%mmonth as a decimal number (01-12)01
%Mminute (00-59)33
%nnew-line character (‘’)
%pAM or PM designationPM
%R24-hour HH:MMtime, equivalent to %H:%M22:33
%Ssecond (00-59)44
%thorizontal-tab character (’)
%TISO8601 time format (HH:MM:SS), equivalent to %H:%M:%S22:33:44
%uISO8601 weekday as number with Monday as 1 (1-7)2
%VISO8601 week number (01-53)01
%wweekday as a decimal number with Sunday as 0 (0-6)2
%yYear, last two digits (00-99)18
%YYear2018
%%a % sign%

Returned value(s) Returns time and date values according to the determined format.

Example

SELECT formatDateTime(toDate('2010-01-04'), '%d');
┌─formatDateTime(toDate('2010-01-04'), '%d')─┐
│ 04 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘

from_unixtime

danger

NOT SUPPORT BY BYTEYARD

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.

Example

SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(423543535);
┌─FROM_UNIXTIME(423543535)─┐
│ 1983-06-04 10:58:55 │
└──────────────────────────┘

When there are two arguments: first is an Integer or DateTime, second is a constant format string — it acts in the same way as formatDateTime and return String type.

For example:

SELECT FROM_UNIXTIME(1234334543, '%Y-%m-%d %R:%S') AS DateTime;

┌─DateTime────────────┐

│ 2009-02-11 14:42:23 │

└─────────────────────┘

now

Returns the current date and time.

Syntax

now()

Returned value

  • Current date and time.

Type: Datetime.

Example

SELECT now();
┌─now()───────────────┐
│ 2021-08-11 14:35:47 │
└─────────────────────┘

subtractDays

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractDays(date, interval)
subtractDays(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractDays(date, 1) AS subtract_days_with_date,
subtractDays(date_time, 1) AS subtract_days_with_date_time
┌─subtract_days_with_date─┬─subtract_days_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-12-31 │ 2018-12-31 00:00:00 │
└─────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘

subtractHours

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractHours(date, interval)
subtractHours(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractHours(date, 1) AS subtract_hours_with_date,
subtractHours(date_time, 1) AS subtract_hours_with_date_time
danger

INCORRECT RESULT?

┌─subtract_hours_with_date─┬─subtract_hours_with_date_time─┐
│ 2002-11-25 │ 2018-12-31 23:00:00 │
└──────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

subtractMinutes

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractMinutes(date, interval)
subtractMinutes(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractMinutes(date, 1) AS subtract_minutes_with_date,
subtractMinutes(date_time, 1) AS subtract_minutes_with_date_time
danger

INCORRECT RESULT?

┌─subtract_minutes_with_date─┬─subtract_minutes_with_date_time─┐
│ 2012-08-04 │ 2018-12-31 23:59:00 │
└────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

subtractMonths

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractMonths(date, interval)
subtractMonths(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractMonths(date, 1) AS subtract_months_with_date,
subtractMonths(date_time, 1) AS subtract_months_with_date_time
┌─subtract_months_with_date─┬─subtract_months_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-12-01 │ 2018-12-01 00:00:00 │
└───────────────────────────┴────────────────────────────────┘

subtractQuarters

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractQuarters(date, interval)
subtractQuarters(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractQuarters(date, 1) AS subtract_quarters_with_date,
subtractQuarters(date_time, 1) AS subtract_quarters_with_date_time
┌─subtract_quarters_with_date─┬─subtract_quarters_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-10-01 │ 2018-10-01 00:00:00 │
└─────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘

subtractSeconds

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractSeconds(date, interval)
subtractSeconds(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractSeconds(date, 1) AS subtract_seconds_with_date,
subtractSeconds(date_time, 1) AS subtract_seconds_with_date_time
danger

INCORRECT RESULT?

┌─subtract_seconds_with_date─┬─subtract_seconds_with_date_time─┐
│ 2012-10-02 │ 2018-12-31 23:59:59 │
└────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────────┘

subtractWeeks

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractWeeks(date, interval)
subtractWeeks(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

WITH
toDate('2019-01-01') AS date,
toDateTime('2019-01-01 00:00:00') AS date_time
SELECT
subtractWeeks(date, 1) AS subtract_weeks_with_date,
subtractWeeks(date_time, 1) AS subtract_weeks_with_date_time
┌─subtract_weeks_with_date─┬─subtract_weeks_with_date_time─┐
│ 2018-12-25 │ 2018-12-25 00:00:00 │
└──────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

subtractYears

Function subtract a Date/DateTime interval to a Date/DateTime and then return the Date/DateTime.

Syntax

subtractYears(date, interval)
subtractYears(datetime, interval)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • interval - Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

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 │
└──────────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────┘

timeSlot

Rounds the time to the half hour.

This function is specific to Yandex.Metrica, since half an hour is the minimum amount of time for breaking a session into two sessions if a tracking tag shows a single user’s consecutive pageviews that differ in time by strictly more than this amount. This means that tuples (the tag ID, user ID, and time slot) can be used to search for pageviews that are included in the corresponding session.

Syntax

timeSlot(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • DateTime

Example

SELECT timeSlot(toDateTime('2018-01-01 01:01:01'))
┌─timeSlot(toDateTime('2018-01-01 01:01:01'))─┐
│ 2018-01-01 01:00:00 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

timeSlots

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: a constant UInt32, set to 1800 by default.

This is necessary for searching for pageviews in the corresponding session.

Syntax

timeSlots(StartTime, Duration,[, Size])

Arguments

  • StartTime- DateTime
  • Duration - Duration in seconds, UInt32
  • Size - Size of the interval.

Returned value

  • An array of timeSlot.

Example

SELECT timeSlots(toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:20:00'), toUInt32(600))
┌─timeSlots(toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:20:00'), toUInt32(600))─┐
│ [2012-01-01 12:00:00, 2012-01-01 12:30:00] │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

timezone

danger

Sensitive Function of ByConity

Returns the timezone of the server.

Syntax

timezone()

Alias: timezone .

Returned value

  • Timezone. Type: String.

Example

SELECT timezone()

toDayOfMonth

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the day of the month (1-31).

Syntax

toDayOfMonth(date)
toDayOfMonth(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • day of the month. UInt8

Example

SELECT toDayOfMonth(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toDayOfMonth(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 12 │
└────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toDayOfMonth(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toDayOfMonth(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 12 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toDayOfWeek

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the day of the week (Monday is 1, and Sunday is 7).

Syntax

toDayOfWeek(date)
toDayOfWeek(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • day of the week. UInt8

Example

SELECT toDayOfWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toDayOfWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 4 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toDayOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toDayOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 4 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toDayOfYear

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt16 number containing the number of the day of the year (1-366).

Syntax

toDayOfYear(date)
toDayOfYear(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • day of the year. UInt8

Example

SELECT toDayOfWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toDayOfWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 4 │
└───────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toDayOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toDayOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 4 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toHour

Converts a date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the hour in 24-hour time (0-23).

This function 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).

Syntax

toHour(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the hour in 24-hour time. UInt8

Example

SELECT toHour(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toHour(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 0 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

toISOWeek

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the ISO Week number.

Syntax

toISOWeek(date)
toISOWeek(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • ISO Week number. UInt8

Example

SELECT toISOWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toISOWeek(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 32 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toISOWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toISOWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 32 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toISOYear

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt16 number containing the ISO Year number.

Syntax

toISOYear(date)
toISOYear(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • ISO Year number. UInt16

Example

SELECT toISOYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toISOYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toISOYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toISOYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toMinute

Converts a date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the minute of the hour (0-59).

Syntax

toMinute(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • minute of the hour. UInt8

Example

SELECT toMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 0 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toMonday

Rounds down a date or date with time to the nearest Monday.

Returns the date.

Syntax

toMonday(date)
toMonday(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • date to the nearest Monday. Date

Example

SELECT toMonday(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toMonday(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021-08-09 │
└────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toMonday(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toMonday(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-09 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toMonth

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the month number (1-12).

Syntax

toMonth(date)
toMonth(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • date to the nearest Monday. Date

Example

SELECT toMonday(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toMonday(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021-08-09 │
└────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toMonday(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toMonday(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-09 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toQuarter

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the quarter number.

Syntax

toQuarter(date)
toQuarter(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • quarter number. UInt8

Example

SELECT toQuarter(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toQuarter(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 3 │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toQuarter(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toQuarter(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 3 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeDayNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the day, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeDayNum(date)
toRelativeDayNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the day, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt16

Example

SELECT toRelativeDayNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeDayNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 18851 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeDayNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeDayNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 18851 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeHourNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the hour, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeHourNum(date)
toRelativeHourNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the hour, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt32

Example

SELECT toRelativeHourNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeHourNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 452416 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeHourNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeHourNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 452416 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeMinuteNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the minute, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeMinuteNum(date)
toRelativeMinuteNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the minute, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt32

Example

SELECT toRelativeMinuteNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeMinuteNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 27144960 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeMinuteNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeMinuteNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 27144960 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeMonthNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the month, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeMonthNum(date)
toRelativeMonthNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the month, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt16

Example

SELECT toRelativeMonthNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeMonthNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 24260 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeMonthNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeMonthNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 24260 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeQuarterNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the quarter, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeQuarterNum(date)
toRelativeQuarterNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the quarter, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt16

Example

SELECT toRelativeQuarterNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeQuarterNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 8086 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeQuarterNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeQuarterNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 8086 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeSecondNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the second, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeSecondNum(date)
toRelativeSecondNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the second, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt32

Example

SELECT toRelativeSecondNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeSecondNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 1628697600 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeSecondNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeSecondNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 1628697600 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeWeekNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the week, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeWeekNum(date)
toRelativeWeekNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the week, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt16

Example

SELECT toRelativeWeekNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeWeekNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2693 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeWeekNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeWeekNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2693 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toRelativeYearNum

Converts a date with time or date to the number of the year, starting from a certain fixed point in the past.

Syntax

toRelativeYearNum(date)
toRelativeYearNum(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the year, starting from a certain fixed point in the past. UInt16

Example

SELECT toRelativeYearNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toRelativeYearNum(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toRelativeYearNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toRelativeYearNum(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toSecond

Converts a date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the second in the minute (0-59).

Leap seconds are not accounted for.

Syntax

toSecond(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • number of the second in the minute. UInt8

Example

SELECT toSecond(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toSecond(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 0 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfDay

Rounds down a date with time to the start of the day.

Syntax

toStartOfDay(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date with time to the start of the day. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfDay(toDateTime('2021-08-12 08:00:00'))
┌─toStartOfDay(toDateTime('2021-08-12 08:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 00:00:00 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfFifteenMinutes

Rounds down the date with time to the start of the fifteen-minute interval.

Syntax

toStartOfFifteenMinutes(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down the date with time to the start of the fifteen-minute interval. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfFifteenMinutes(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:10:00'))
┌─toStartOfFifteenMinutes(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:10:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 00:00:00 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfFiveMinute

Rounds down a date with time to the start of the five-minute interval.

Syntax

toStartOfFiveMinute(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date with time to the start of the five-minute interval. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfFiveMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:09:00'))
┌─toStartOfFiveMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:09:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 00:05:00 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfHour

Rounds down a date with time to the start of the hour.

Syntax

toStartOfHour(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date with time to the start of the hour. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfHour(toDateTime('2021-08-12 01:09:00'))
┌─toStartOfHour(toDateTime('2021-08-12 01:09:00'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 01:00:00 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfISOYear

Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of ISO year.

Returns the date.

Syntax

toStartOfISOYear(date)
toStartOfISOYear(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of ISO year. Date

Example

SELECT toStartOfISOYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toStartOfISOYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021-01-04 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toStartOfISOYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toStartOfISOYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021-01-04 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfInterval

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.

Syntax

toStartOfInterval(time_or_data, INTERVAL x unit [, time_zone])

Arguments

  • time_or_data- Date/DateTime
  • x unit - x is UInt*, unit can be second, minute, hour, day, month, year, quarter

Returned value

  • Date/DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfInterval(toDateTime('2021-08-12 01:09:00'), INTERVAL 2 minute)
┌─toStartOfInterval(toDateTime('2021-08-12 01:09:00'), toIntervalMinute(2))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 01:08:00 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfMinute

Rounds down a date with time to the start of the minute.

Syntax

toStartOfMinute(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date with time to the start of the minute. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfMinute(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 00:01:00 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfMonth

Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the month.

Returns the date.

Syntax

toStartOfMonth(date)
toStartOfMonth(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the month. Date

Example

SELECT toStartOfMonth(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toStartOfMonth(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021-08-01 │
└──────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toStartOfMonth(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfMonth(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-08-01 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

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.

Syntax

toStartOfQuarter(date)
toStartOfQuarter(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the quarter. Date

Example

SELECT toStartOfQuarter(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toStartOfQuarter(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021-07-01 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toStartOfQuarter(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfQuarter(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-07-01 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfTenMinutes

Rounds down a date with time to the start of the ten-minute interval.

Syntax

toStartOfTenMinutes(datetime)

Arguments

  • datetime- DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date with time to the start of the ten-minute interval. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfTenMinutes(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfTenMinutes(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-08-12 00:00:00 │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfWeek

Rounds down a date or date with time to the nearest Sunday or Monday by mode. Returns the date. The mode argument works exactly like the mode argument to toWeek(). For the single-argument syntax, a mode value of 0 is used.

Syntax

toStartOfWeek(date\[,mode\])
toStartOfWeek(datetime\[,mode\])

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • mode - Refer toWeek mode.

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the nearest Sunday or Monday by mode. DateTime

Example

SELECT toStartOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfWeek(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-08-08 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toStartOfYear

Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the year.

Returns the date.

Syntax

toStartOfYear(date)
toStartOfYear(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the year. Date

Example

SELECT toStartOfYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toStartOfYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))─┐
│ 2021-01-01 │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toTime

Converts a date with time to a certain fixed date, while preserving the time.

Syntax

toTime(date)
toTime(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • DateTime

Example

SELECT toTime(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30'))
┌─toTypeName(toTime(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:01:30')))─┐
│ DateTime('PRC') │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toTimeZone

Converts time or date and time to the specified time zone. The time zone is an attribute of the Date and DateTime data types. The internal value (number of seconds) of the table field or of the resultset's column does not change, the column's type changes and its string representation changes accordingly.

Syntax

toTimezone(value, timezone)

Arguments

  • value — Time or date and time. Date/DateTime.
  • timezone — Timezone for the returned value. String.

Returned value

  • Date and time. 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;
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

toTimeZone(time_utc, 'Asia/Yekaterinburg') changes the DateTime('UTC') type to DateTime('Asia/Yekaterinburg') . The value (Unixtimestamp) 1546300800 stays the same, but the string representation (the result of the toString() function) changes from time_utc: 2019-01-01 00:00:00 to time_yekat: 2019-01-01 05:00:00 .

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.

ModeFirst day of weekRangeWeek 1 is the first week …
0Sunday0-53with a Sunday in this year
1Monday0-53with 4 or more days this year
2Sunday1-53with a Sunday in this year
3Monday1-53with 4 or more days this year
4Sunday0-53with 4 or more days this year
5Monday0-53with a Monday in this year
6Sunday1-53with 4 or more days this year
7Monday1-53with a Monday in this year
8Sunday1-53contains January 1
9Monday1-53contains 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(date, [, mode][, Timezone])

Arguments

  • date – 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.

Returned value

  • week number. UInt8

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 │
└────────────┴───────┴───────┴───────┘

toYYYYMM

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt32 number containing the year and month number (YYYY * 100 + MM).

Syntax

toYYYYMM(date)
toYYYYMM(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number containing the year and month number. UInt32

Example

SELECT toYYYYMM(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toYYYYMM(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 202108 │
└────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toYYYYMM(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toYYYYMM(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 202108 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toYYYYMMDD

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt32 number containing the year and month, and day (YYYY 10000 + MM 100 + DD).

Syntax

toYYYYMMDD(date)
toYYYYMMDD(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number containing the year and month, and day. UInt32

Example

SELECT toYYYYMMDD(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toYYYYMMDD(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 20210812 │
└──────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toYYYYMMDD(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toYYYYMMDD(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 20210812 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toYYYYMMDDhhmmss

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt64 number containing the year, month, day, hour,minutes and seconds (YYYY 10000000000 + MM 100000000 + DD 1000000 + hh 10000 + mm * 100 + ss).

Syntax

toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(date)
toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • number containing the year, month, day, hour,minutes and seconds. UInt32

Example

SELECT toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 20210812000000 │
└────────────────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toYYYYMMDDhhmmss(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 20210812000000 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

toYear

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt16 number containing the year number (AD).

Syntax

toYear(date)
toYear(datetime)

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Converts a date or date with time to a UInt16 number containing the year number (AD). UInt16

Example

SELECT toYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))
┌─toYear(toDate('2021-08-12'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└──────────────────────────────┘
SELECT toYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))
┌─toYear(toDateTime('2021-08-12 00:00:00'))─┐
│ 2021 │
└───────────────────────────────────────────┘

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 exactly 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) .

Syntax

toYearWeek(date[,mode])
toYearWeek(datetime[,mode])

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime
  • mode - Refer toWeek mode.

Returned value

  • year and week for a date. UInt32

Example

SELECT toDate('2016-12-27') AS date, toYearWeek(date) AS yearWeek0, toYearWeek(date,1) AS yearWeek1, toYearWeek(date,9) AS yearWeek9;
┌─date───────┬─yearWeek0─┬─yearWeek1─┬─yearWeek9─┐
│ 2016-12-27 │ 201652 │ 201652 │ 201701 │
└────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

today

Accepts zero arguments and returns the current date at one of the moments of request execution.

The same as ‘toDate(now())’.

Syntax

today()

Returned value

  • Date.

Example

SELECT today()

week

Alias to ToWeek

year

Alias to toYear

yearweek

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 exactly 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) .

Syntax

toYearWeek(date[,mode])

Arguments

  • date/datetime- Date/DateTime

Returned value

  • Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of ISO year. Date

Example

SELECT toDate('2016-12-27') AS date, toYearWeek(date) AS yearWeek0, toYearWeek(date,1) AS yearWeek1, toYearWeek(date,9) AS yearWeek9;
┌─date───────┬─yearWeek0─┬─yearWeek1─┬─yearWeek9─┐
│ 2016-12-27 │ 201652 │ 201652 │ 201701 │
└────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────┘

yesterday

Accepts zero arguments and returns yesterday’s date at one of the moments of request execution.

The same as ‘today() - 1’.

Syntax

yesterday()

Returned value

  • Date.

Example

SELECT yesterday()