now — the current time
now() -> time
The now function takes no arguments and returns the current UTC time as a value of type time.
This is useful to timestamp events in a data pipeline, e.g., when generating errors that are marked with their time of occurrence:
switch (
...
default => yield error({ts:now(), ...})
)
echo null | zq -z 'yield now()' -
=>
2022-02-06T18:35:35.053843Z
(at the time this document was written)