your probably looking for curtime()
<manual snip>
   CURTIME()
   CURRENT_TIME
          Returns the current time as a value in 'HH:MM:SS' or HHMMSS
          format, depending on whether the function is used in a string
          or numeric context:
mysql> select CURTIME();
        -> '23:50:26'
mysql> select CURTIME() + 0;
        -> 235026
</manual snip>

On Thursday 14 November 2002 8:36, you wrote:
> Can anyone help with (what I hope is) a pretty simple time function
> query? I need to extract a set of records from a table based on
> separate date and time columns, where both the date and time are older
> or equal to now.
>
> For example, my sql query is going to look a bit like this:
>
>   select ID, Live_Time, Live_Date from schedule
>   where TO_DAYS(NOW()) <= Live_Date
>   and SOMETHING <= Live_Time
>
> and it's the "SOMETHING" that I need to know!
>
> (Before you ask, there are reasons why the date and time are separate
> columns rather than being a single datetime column, and I don't want
> to rewrite the structure unless I have to)
>
> Thanks
>
> Mark
>
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