I need to retrieve what's the current date and time for the database I'm connected with SQLAlchemy (not date and time of the machine where I'm running Python code). I've seen this functions, but they don't seem to do what they say:

>>> from sqlalchemy import *
>>> print func.current_date()
CURRENT_DATE
>>> print func.current_timestamp()
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

Moreover it seems they don't need to be binded to any SQLAlchemy session or engine. It makes no sense...

Thanks!