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Oracle Date Functions

This page provides you with the most commonly used Oracle date functions that help you handle date
and time data easily and more e湺ectively.

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Function Example Result Description

ADD_MONTHS ADD_MONTHS( DATE '2016‐   31‐MAR‐16 Add a number of

02‐29', 1 ) months (n) to a date
and return the same
day which is n of
months away.

CURRENT_DATE   SELECT CURRENT_DATE FROM    06‐AUG‐2017 Return the current date

dual 19:43:44 and time in the session
time zone

CURRENT_TIMESTAMP SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP 06‐AUG‐17 Return the current date

FROM dual 08.26.52.742000000 and time with time
PM ‐07:00 zone in the session
time zone

DBTIMEZONE   SELECT DBTIMEZONE FROM   ‐07:00 Get the current

dual; database time zone

EXTRACT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM   2017 Extract a value of a date

SYSDATE) time eld e.g., YEAR,
MONTH, DAY, … from a
date time value.

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Function Example Result Description

FROM_TZ FROM_TZ(TIMESTAMP '2017‐   08‐AUG‐17 Convert a timestamp

08‐08 08:09:10',
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a
'‐09:00') AM ‐07:00 TIMESTAMP WITH TIME
ZONE value

LAST_DAY LAST_DAY(DATE '2016‐02‐   29‐FEB‐16 Gets the last day of the

01') month of a specied
date.

LOCALTIMESTAMP SELECT LOCALTIMESTAMP   06‐AUG‐17 Return a TIMESTAMP

FROM dual 08.26.52.742000000 value that represents
PM the current date and
time in the session time
zone.

MONTHS_BETWEEN MONTHS_BETWEEN( DATE 6 Return the number of

'2017‐07‐01', DATE '2017‐ months between two
01‐01' ) dates.

NEW_TIME NEW_TIME( TO_DATE( '08‐   06‐AUG‐2017 Convert a date in one

07‐2017 01:30:45', 'MM‐ 21:30:45 time zone to another
DD‐YYYY HH24:MI:SS' ),
'AST', 'PST' )

NEXT_DAY NEXT_DAY( DATE '2000‐01‐   02‐JAN‐00 Get the rst weekday

01', 'SUNDAY' ) that is later than a
specied date.

ROUND ROUND(DATE '2017‐07‐16',   01‐AUG‐17 Return a date rounded

'MM') to a specic unit of
measure.

SESSIONTIMEZONE   SELECT SESSIONTIMEZONE   ‐07:00 Get the session time

FROM dual; zone

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Function Example Result Description

SYSDATE   SYSDATE    01‐AUG‐17 Return the current

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of the operating system

where the Oracle
Database resides.

SYSTIMESTAMP   SELECT SYSTIMESTAMP FROM 01‐AUG‐17 Return the system date

dual; 01.33.57.929000000 and time that includes
PM ‐07:00 fractional seconds and
time zone.

TO_CHAR   TO_CHAR( DATE'2017‐01‐   Sunday, January Convert a DATE or an

01', 'DL' ) 01, 2017 INTERVAL value to a
character string in a
specied format.

TO_DATE TO_DATE( '01 Jan 2017',   01‐JAN‐17 Convert a date which

'DD MON YYYY' ) is in the character
string to a DATE value.

TRUNC   TRUNC(DATE '2017‐07‐16',   01‐JUL‐17 Return a date truncated

'MM') to a specic unit of
measure.

TZ_OFFSET TZ_OFFSET(   +01:00 Get time zone o湺set of

'Europe/London' ) a time zone name from
UTC

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