On Friday, March 25, 2011 10:05:59 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 Maybe something like: test(5432)aklaver=>SELECT * from timestamp_test ; id | txt_fld | ts_fld | ts_fld2 ----+---------+-------------------------------+------------------------ 1 | test1 | 2009-03-11 12:35:43.065678-07 | (NULL) 3 | test3 | 2009-03-11 13:37:01.166354-07 | (NULL) 2 | test2 | 2009-03-11 12:42:15.276405-07 | (NULL) 4 | test3 | 2009-03-11 14:37:48.993075-07 | (NULL) 5 | test3 | 2009-03-12 12:38:07.722856-07 | (NULL) 6 | test4 | 2009-12-24 13:35:51.59005-08 | (NULL) 7 | test4 | 2009-12-24 13:37:32.499764-08 | 2009-12-24 13:37:32-08 8 | t | 2010-05-20 08:13:28.157027-07 | 2010-05-20 12:13:28-07 9 | t | 2010-05-20 08:13:43.265383-07 | 2010-05-20 10:13:43-07 10 | t | 2010-05-20 08:13:53.718519-07 | 2010-05-20 13:13:54-07 11 | s | 2011-03-25 09:00:00.124-07 | 2011-03-25 14:15:13-07 12 | s | 2011-03-25 09:12:00.124-07 | 2011-03-25 14:16:27-07 test(5432)aklaver=>SELECT regexp_replace(date_trunc('minute', ts_fld)::text,':00{1}','') from timestamp_test; regexp_replace --------------------- 2009-03-11 12:35-07 2009-03-11 13:37-07 2009-03-11 12:42-07 2009-03-11 14:37-07 2009-03-12 12:38-07 2009-12-24 13:35-08 2009-12-24 13:37-08 2010-05-20 08:13-07 2010-05-20 08:13-07 2010-05-20 08:13-07 2011-03-25 09:00-07 2011-03-25 09:12-07 -- Adrian Klaver adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general