XQuery current-dateTime Function

How to use the XQuery current-dateTime() function to retrieve the current date and time with timezone offset in XQuery expressions.

The current-dateTime function is used to return the current date and time.

current-dateTime()

Example

XQuery Expressionxquery

let $datetime := current-dateTime()

return
<results>
   <datetime>{$datetime}</datetime>
</results>

Outputxml

<results>
   <datetime>2022-10-05T12:35:54.451+02:00</datetime>result
</results>