How To Get The Date And Time From Timestamp In Postgresql Select Query?

How to get the date and time only up to minutes, not seconds, from timestamp in PostgreSQL. I need date as well as time. For example: 2000-12-16 12:21:13-05 From this I need 2000

Solution 1:

To get the date from a timestamp (or timestamptz) a simple cast is fastest:

SELECT now()::date

You get the date according to your local time zone either way.

If you want text in a certain format, go with to_char() like @davek provided.

If you want to truncate (round down) the value of a timestamp to a unit of time, use date_trunc():

SELECT date_trunc('minute', now());

Solution 2:

There are plenty of date-time functions available with postgresql:

See the list here

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-datetime.html

e.g.

SELECTEXTRACT(DAYFROMTIMESTAMP'2001-02-16 20:38:40');
Result: 16

For formatting you can use these:

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/functions-formatting.html

e.g.

select to_char(current_timestamp, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI') ...

Solution 3:

This should be enough:

select now()::date, now()::time
    , pg_typeof(now()), pg_typeof(now()::date), pg_typeof(now()::time)