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toStartOfQuarter

Rounds down a date or date with time to the first day of the quarter. The first day of the quarter is either 1 January, 1 April, 1 July, or 1 October. Returns the date.

Syntax​

toStartOfQuarter(expr)

Arguments​

ArgumentsDescription
exprdate16/date32/datetime

Return Type​

Datetime object, returns date in “YYYY-MM-DD” format.

Examples​

mysql> select toStartOfQuarter(toDate(18869));
+---------------------------------+
| toStartOfQuarter(toDate(18869)) |
+---------------------------------+
| 2021-07-01                      |
+---------------------------------+

mysql> select toStartOfQuarter(toDateTime(1630812366));
+------------------------------------------+
| toStartOfQuarter(toDateTime(1630812366)) |
+------------------------------------------+
| 2021-07-01                               |
+------------------------------------------+