David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc' ; > timezone > ------------------------ > 2018-07-11 11:27:12-04 > (1 row) You're doing it wrong: coercing to timestamp already involves a rotation to local time, and then "at time zone" says to interpret that as a time in UTC, and the output is a timestamptz which will be displayed in your local time. I think the result you want is more like select (now() at time zone 'utc')::timestamp(0); although personally I'd choose some other way of dropping the fractional second, probably select current_timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc'; regards, tom lane