The current-dateTime function is used to return the current date and time.
Syntax
current-dateTime()
Example
XQuery Expression
let $datetime := current-dateTime() return <results> <datetime>{$datetime}</datetime> </results>
Output
<results> <datetime>2014-10-27T14:55:58.621+05:30</datetime>result </results>
Here T separates the date with time and +5:30 represents the relative GMT time of the server.
Verify the Result
In order to test the above-mentioned functionality, replace the contents of books.xqy (mentioned in Environment Setup chapter) with the above XQuery expression and execute the XQueryTester java program to verify the result.