Date and time functions

Date and time functions perform operations on DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, and TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE data types.

SQL Anywhere includes compatibility support for Transact-SQL date and time types, including DATETIME and SMALLDATETIME. These Transact-SQL data types are implemented as domains over the native SQL Anywhere TIMESTAMP data type.

For more information about datetime data types, see Date and time data types.

Specifying date parts

Many of the date functions use dates built from date parts. The following table displays allowed values of date parts.

When using date and time functions, you can specify a minus sign to subtract from a date or time. For example, to get a timestamp from 31 days ago, you can execute the following:

SELECT DATEADD(day, -31, NOW());

Date part	Abbreviation	Values
Year	yy	1-9999
Quarter	qq	1-4
Month	mm	1-12
Week	wk	1-54. Weeks begin on Sunday.
Day	dd	1-31
Dayofyear	dy	1-366
Weekday	dw	1-7 (Sunday = 1, ..., Saturday = 7)
Hour	hh	0-23
Minute	mi	0-59
Second	ss	0-59
Millisecond	ms	0-999
Microsecond	mcs or us	0-999999
Calyearofweek	cyr	Integer. The year in which the week begins. The week containing the first few days of the year may have started in the previous year, depending on the weekday on which the year started. Years starting on Monday through Thursday have no days that are part of the previous year, but years starting on Friday through Sunday start their first week on the first Monday of the year.
Calweekofyear	cwk	1-53. The week number within the year that contains the specified date. For more information about the ISO week system and the ISO 8601 date and time standard, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_week_date.
Caldayofweek	cdw	1-7. (Monday = 1, ..., Sunday = 7)
TZ Offset	tz	-840 to 840

List of date and time functions

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