pyspark.sql.functions.current_date

pyspark.sql.functions.current_date()

Returns the current date at the start of query evaluation as a DateType column. All calls of current_date within the same query return the same value.

New in version 1.5.0.

Changed in version 3.4.0: Supports Spark Connect.

Returns

Column

current date.

See also

pyspark.sql.functions.now()

pyspark.sql.functions.curdate()

pyspark.sql.functions.current_timestamp()

pyspark.sql.functions.localtimestamp()

Examples

>>> from pyspark.sql import functions as sf
>>> spark.range(1).select(sf.current_date()).show() 
+--------------+
|current_date()|
+--------------+
|    2022-08-26|
+--------------+