pyspark.sql.functions.now

pyspark.sql.functions.now() → pyspark.sql.column.Column[source]

Returns the current timestamp at the start of query evaluation.

New in version 3.5.0.

Returns
Column

current timestamp at the start of query evaluation.

Examples

>>> df = spark.range(1)
>>> df.select(now()).show(truncate=False) 
+-----------------------+
|now()    |
+-----------------------+
|2022-08-26 21:23:22.716|
+-----------------------+