How to get current date & time in MySQL?

Question

Is there a value or command like DATETIME that I can use in a manual query to insert the current date and time?

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Answer 1

You can use not only now(), also current_timestamp() and localtimestamp(). The main reason of incorrect display timestamp is inserting NOW() with single quotes! It didn't work for me in MySQL Workbench because of this IDE add single quotes for mysql functions and i didn't recognize it at once )

Don't use functions with single quotes like in MySQL Workbench. It doesn't work.