pyspark-current-date-timestamp.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
author SparkByExamples.com
"""

from pyspark.sql import SparkSession

# Create SparkSession
spark = SparkSession.builder \
               .appName('SparkByExamples.com') \
               .getOrCreate()
data=[["1"]]
df=spark.createDataFrame(data,["id"])

from pyspark.sql.functions import *

#current_date() & current_timestamp()
df.withColumn("current_date",current_date()) \
  .withColumn("current_timestamp",current_timestamp()) \
  .show(truncate=False)

#SQL
spark.sql("select current_date(), current_timestamp()") \
     .show(truncate=False)

# Date & Timestamp into custom format
df.withColumn("date_format",date_format(current_date(),"MM-dd-yyyy")) \
  .withColumn("to_timestamp",to_timestamp(current_timestamp(),"MM-dd-yyyy HH mm ss SSS")) \
  .show(truncate=False)

#SQL
spark.sql("select date_format(current_date(),'MM-dd-yyyy') as date_format ," + \
          "to_timestamp(current_timestamp(),'MM-dd-yyyy HH mm ss SSS') as to_timestamp") \
     .show(truncate=False)