How to select current date in Hive SQL

Question

How do we get the current system date in Hive? In MySQL we have select now(), can any one please help me to get the query results. I am very new to Hive, is there a proper d

Answer 1

According to the LanguageManual, you can use unix_timestamp() to get the "current time stamp using the default time zone." If you need to convert that to something more human-readable, you can use from_unixtime(unix_timestamp()).

Hope that helps.