On 03/25/2011 10:05 AM, Marco wrote:
I have a column Âtimestamp with time zoneÂ. I want to extract the date/time in a different format including the time zone offset in a query but without seconds. If I do select to_char(datetime, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI') from table; then the time zone offset is missing in the output: 2011-03-25 18:01 If I do select date_trunc( 'minute', datetime) from table; then the time zone offset is present, but the seconds are not removed: 2011-03-25 18:01:00+01 I want it to look like this: 2011-03-25 18:01+01 How to do that? Marco
There are the TZ and tz formats but they return abbreviated names, not offsets. It's a tiny kludge, but this should do what you want: to_char(now(), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM') || to_char(extract(timezone_hour from now()), 'S09')
This is based on the assumption that you will never have to deal with timezones that have other than whole-hour offsets:
select * from pg_timezone_names where utc_offset::text !~ '00:00'; Cheers, Steve -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
