Date & Time Functions

current-date

current-date() as xs:date

Returns the current date.

current-dateTime

current-dateTime() as xs:dateTime

Returns the current date and time.

current-time

current-time() as xs:time

Returns the current time.

format-date

format-date($value as xs:date, $picture as xs:string) as xs:string

Formats a date according to the picture string.

Component Extraction

These functions extract individual components from date, time, dateTime, and duration values:

Function	Argument	Returns
year-from-date	xs:date	xs:integer
month-from-date	xs:date	xs:integer
day-from-date	xs:date	xs:integer
year-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:integer
month-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:integer
day-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:integer
hours-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:integer
minutes-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:integer
seconds-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:decimal
hours-from-time	xs:time	xs:integer
minutes-from-time	xs:time	xs:integer
seconds-from-time	xs:time	xs:decimal
years-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:integer
months-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:integer
days-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:integer
hours-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:integer
minutes-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:integer
seconds-from-duration	xs:duration	xs:decimal

Timezone Adjustment

Function	Argument	Returns
adjust-date-to-timezone	xs:date, xs:dayTimeDuration?	xs:date?
adjust-dateTime-to-timezone	xs:dateTime, xs:dayTimeDuration?	xs:dateTime?
adjust-time-to-timezone	xs:time, xs:dayTimeDuration?	xs:time?
timezone-from-date	xs:date	xs:dayTimeDuration?
timezone-from-dateTime	xs:dateTime	xs:dayTimeDuration?
timezone-from-time	xs:time	xs:dayTimeDuration?