如何从PostgreSQL选择查询中的时间戳获取日期和时间？

Question

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

2000-12-16 12:21 (no seconds and milliseconds only date and time in hours and minutes)

From a timestamp with time zone field, say update_time , how do I get date as well as time like above using PostgreSQL select query.

Please help me.

Answer 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());

Answer 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

eg

SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM TIMESTAMP '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

eg

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

Answer 3

This should be enough:

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