NOW

Retrieve the current date and time.

SELECT NOW();

Definition and Usage

The NOW() function retrieves the current date and time.

Please note that the date and time are returned in either “YYYY-MM-DD HH-MM-SS” (string) or YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.uuuuuu (numeric) format.

NOW()

Works in:

From MySQL version 4.0

Retrieve the current date and time incremented by 1 unit.

SELECT NOW() + 1;