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

To fetch only current date excluding time stamp:

in lower versions, looks like hive CURRENT_DATE is not available, hence you can use (it worked for me on Hive 0.14)

select TO_DATE(FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP()));

In higher versions say hive 2.0, you can use :

select CURRENT_DATE;