Thread: Extracting date from timestamp

How to extract date(mm/dd/yyy) from a timestamp .

On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 06:26:14PM +0530, Nageshwar Rao wrote:
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> How to extract date(mm/dd/yyy) from a timestamp .

You could cast the timestamp to date.  See also "Data Type Formatting
Functions" and "Date/Time Functions and Operators" in the "Functions
and Operators" chapter of the documentation.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-formatting.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-datetime.html

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Michael Fuhr
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Nageshwar Rao wrote:
> How to extract date(mm/dd/yyy) from a timestamp .

See chapter 9.8. Data Type Formatting Functions, all about to_char()

If you just want your preset format you can use SELECT now()::date;


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