How to get today's date in the local time zone?

[Mado]

I am trying to get today's date in the local time zone:

from pyspark.sql.functions import * 
date = to_date(from_utc_timestamp(current_timestamp(), 'Australia/Melbourne'))

What I get using the above code is a column object.

How can I get its value in a variable? I tried ".first()" but it doesn't work on the column object.

 

[Hemant · Accepted solution]

Hi @Mohammad Saber​ , you can use pytz and datetime python package for your usecase,, attaching code snippet in below screen shot.