MySQL - Insert current date/time?

To insert only date value, use curdate() in MySQL. With that, if you want to get the entire datetime, then you can use now() method.

Let us first create a table −

mysql> create table CurDateDemo
   -> (
   -> ArrivalDate datetime
   -> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.74 sec)

Now you can insert only date with the help of curdate() method −

mysql> insert into CurDateDemo values(curdate());
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.15 sec)

Display the inserted date with the help of select statement. The query is as follows −

mysql> select *from CurDateDemo;

Here is the output −

+---------------------+
| ArrivalDate         |
+---------------------+
| 2018-11-23 00:00:00 |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Let us now create a table and display the current datetime −

mysql> create table NowDemo
   -> (
   -> ArrivalDate datetime
   -> );
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.47 sec)

Insert both date and time with the help of now().

The query to insert record is as follows −

mysql> insert into NowDemo values(now());
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.16 sec)

Let us now check whether the date and time is inserted or not. The query to display records is as follows −

mysql> select *from NowDemo;

The following is the output −

+---------------------+
| ArrivalDate         |
+---------------------+
| 2018-11-23 17:31:26 |
+---------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)