TODAY

TODAY returns the current date as a date value. Use coerce.to-integer and coerce.to-string function to convert the result to seconds and to a date as a string, respectively.

The structure of the date response returned follows the ISO 8601 standard.

Function category: Date​

Syntax

TODAY()

Timestamp formats

Using the coercion functions with the TODAY() function formats the timestamp as either seconds or data/time formats.

UNIX timestamp milliseconds

The base result for TODAY() is milliseconds.

TODAY()
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["LocalDate",1600128000000]

UNIX timestamp seconds

Adding coerce.to-integer to TODAY() results in a timestamp in seconds.

coerce.to-integer(TODAY())
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1600128000

ISO 8601 Date Time format

Adding coerce.to-string to TODAY() results in a ISO 8601 date/time format.

coerce.to-string(TODAY())
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"2020-09-15"