The CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function returns a TIMESTAMP data type value containing year, month, and, day for date 'today' and hours, minutes, and seconds for time 'now'. As in CURRENT_TIME, you can specify a fractional precision between 0 and 2 for the seconds returned by CURRENT_TIMESTAMP. The fractional-seconds precision is a number that designates the number of digits returned in the field. The CURRENT_TIMESTAMP data type can be either DATE VMS or DATE ANSI format. Date-time arithmetic is not allowed with DATE VMS columns. A DATE VMS format CURRENT_TIMESTAMP specifies the day, month, and year of the current date and the hours, minutes, and seconds of the current time. A DATE ANSI format CURRENT_TIMESTAMP specifies the year, month and day of the current date, followed by the hours, minutes, and seconds of the current time.