If you are just using it in a query, you can do this: date_sub(FROM_UNIXTIME(UNIX_TIMESTAMP(),'yyyy-MM-dd') , 1)
I generally do my date calculations in a shell script and pass them in with a hiveconf variable. Carla -----Original Message----- From: ext Yue Guan [mailto:pipeha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 15:00 To: user@hive.apache.org Subject: Re: (Get the current date -1) in Hive guess you can use sub_date, but you have to get today by some outside script. On 08/06/2012 02:10 PM, Techy Teck wrote: > Is there any way to get the current date -1 in Hive means yesterdays > date always? > > >