# CURRENT\$1DATE function
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CURRENT\$1DATE returns a date in the current session time zone (UTC by default) in the default format: YYYY-MM-DD.

**Note**  
CURRENT\$1DATE returns the start date for the current transaction, not for the start of the current statement. Consider the scenario where you start a transaction containing multiple statements on 10/01/08 23:59, and the statement containing CURRENT\$1DATE runs at 10/02/08 00:00. CURRENT\$1DATE returns `10/01/08`, not `10/02/08`.

## Syntax
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```
CURRENT_DATE
```

## Return type
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DATE

## Example
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The following example returns the current date (in the AWS Region where the function runs).

```
select current_date;

   date
------------
2008-10-01
```