pyspark.sql.functions.now

pyspark.sql.functions.now()

Returns the current timestamp at the start of query evaluation.

New in version 3.5.0.

Returns

Column

current timestamp at the start of query evaluation.

See also

pyspark.sql.functions.curdate()

pyspark.sql.functions.current_date()

pyspark.sql.functions.current_timestamp()

pyspark.sql.functions.localtimestamp()

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
>>> spark.range(1).select(sf.now()).show(truncate=False) 
+--------------------------+
|now()                     |
+--------------------------+
|2023-12-08 15:18:18.482269|
+--------------------------+