kevin kempter wrote: >How could I select the current UTC time ? now() cast as a timestamp >at UTC is wrong because it takes now() and says: if it were now() time >UTC what would it be here (timezone) and returns that. I want to >return 'what time is it now in UTC ?' SELECT EXTRACT('epoch' FROM CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'UTC')::bigint::int Rainer