XQuery/Dates and Time

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Motivation[edit | edit source]

You want a quick reference page of sample functions that work with dates and times.

Method[edit | edit source]

We will provide a sample list of XQuery expressions and their results.

Current Date[edit | edit source]

This function returns the current date on the system that is executing the XQuery in W3C XML Schema date format:

  current-date()

Result:

  2010-05-28-05:00

Note that the "-05:00" is the offset from GMT of the server.

Current Time[edit | edit source]

  current-time()

Result:

  07:02:11.616-05:00

Current Date and Time[edit | edit source]

  current-dateTime()

Result

  2010-05-28T06:59:05.526-05:00

Note that default the letter 'T" separates the date and the time. The results after the decimal point are the number of milliseconds.

One Week Ago[edit | edit source]

  xs:date(current-dateTime()) - xs:dayTimeDuration('P7D')

Result:

  2010-05-21-05:00