UTC_DATE()
UTC_DATE()
This function returns the current Universal Time, Coordinated (UTC) date in yyyy-mm-dd format, or in
yyyymmdd format if it’s used as part of a
numeric calculation. It’s available as of version 4.1.1 of MySQL. The
parentheses are optional. Here is an example:
SELECT UTC_DATE( ), UTC_DATE( ) + 0 AS 'UTC_DATE( ) Numeric'; +-------------+---------------------+ | UTC_DATE( ) | UTC_DATE( ) Numeric | +-------------+---------------------+ | 2008-12-07 | 20081207 | +-------------+---------------------+