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MySQL LOCALTIME Function

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MySQL LOCALTIME or Localtime() are the Date Functions, which are used to return the current date and time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.

In this article, we will show you, How to use these Localtime function in MySQL to get local Date and Time with example.

MySQL LOCALTIME Syntax

The basic syntax of the local date and time in MySQL is as shown below:

LOCALTIME;

LOCALTIME();

TIP: Both these functions are the synonyms of NOW() function. All these three functions will return the same output.

MySQL LOCALTIME Example

The following statements shows you, how to use these MySQL local time functions.

SELECT LOCALTIME;

SELECT LOCALTIME();

SELECT NOW();

OUTPUT

MySQL LOCALTIME Function 1

As you can see, the above three statements returns the local date and time in YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS format.

Below statements show you, what happens when add few seconds to the MySQL localtime() function.

SELECT LOCALTIME() + 2;

SELECT LOCALTIME + 22;

SELECT DATEDIFF(LOCALTIME, '2019-01-22');

OUTPUT

MySQL LOCALTIME Function 2

From the above screenshot, you can see that, the function added those extra seconds and displaying the date in string format i.e., YYYYMMDDHHMMSS

Within the Last statement, we used the Datediff function to find the difference between the local date and time and custom date ‘2019-01-22’

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