Date Types

A date specifies a combination of year, month and day. DuckDB follows the SQL standard's lead by counting dates exclusively in the Gregorian calendar, even for years before that calendar was in use. Dates can be created using the DATE keyword, where the data must be formatted according to the ISO 8601 format (YYYY-MM-DD).

SELECT DATE '1992-09-20';

Special Values

There are also three special date values that can be used on input:

Input string	Description
epoch	1970-01-01 (Unix system day zero)
infinity	later than all other dates
-infinity	earlier than all other dates

The values infinity and -infinity are specially represented inside the system and will be displayed unchanged; but epoch is simply a notational shorthand that will be converted to the date value when read.

SELECT
    '-infinity'::DATE AS negative,
    'epoch'::DATE AS epoch,
    'infinity'::DATE AS positive;

negative	epoch	positive
-infinity	1970-01-01	infinity

Functions

See Date Functions.

Special Values

Functions

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