Functions for working with dates and times¶

Support for time zones

All functions for working with the date and time that have a logical use for the time zone can accept a second optional time zone argument. Example: Asia/Yekaterinburg. In this case, they use the specified time zone instead of the local (default) one.

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

Only time zones that differ from UTC by a whole number of hours are supported.

toTimeZone¶

Convert time or date and time to the specified time zone.

toYear¶

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

toQuarter¶

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

toMonth¶

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

toDayOfYear¶

Converts a date or date with time to a UInt8 number containing the number of the day of the year (1-366).

toDayOfMonth¶

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

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).

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).

toMinute¶

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

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.

toUnixTimestamp¶

Converts a date with time to a unix timestamp.

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.

toMonday¶

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

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.

toStartOfFiveMinute¶

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

toRelativeQuarterNum¶

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

toRelativeMonthNum¶

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

toRelativeWeekNum¶

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

toRelativeDayNum¶

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

toRelativeHourNum¶

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

toRelativeMinuteNum¶

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

toRelativeSecondNum¶

Converts a date with time or date 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.

now¶

Accepts zero arguments and returns the current time at one of the moments of request execution. This function returns a constant, even if the request took a long time to complete.

today¶

Accepts zero arguments and returns the current date at one of the moments of request execution. The same as 'toDate(now())'.

yesterday¶

Accepts zero arguments and returns yesterday's date at one of the moments of request execution. The same as 'today() - 1'.

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.

toYYYYMM¶

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

toYYYYMMDD¶

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

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).

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

dateDiff('unit', t1, t2, [timezone])¶

Return the difference between two times expressed in 'unit' e.g. 'hours'. 't1' and 't2' can be Date or DateTime, If 'timezone' is specified, it applied to both arguments. If not, timezones from datatypes 't1' and 't2' are used. If that timezones are not the same, the result is unspecified.

Supported unit values:

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: a constant UInt32, set to 1800 by default. For example, timeSlots(toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:20:00'), 600) = [toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:00:00'), toDateTime('2012-01-01 12:30:00')]. This is necessary for searching for pageviews in the corresponding session.

formatDateTime(Time, Format[, Timezone])¶

Function formats a Time according given Format string. N.B.: Format is a constant expression, e.g. you can not have multiple formats for single result column.

Supported modifiers for Format: ("Example" column shows formatting result for time 2018-01-02 22:33:44)

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