OK, the "to_char" gets rid of the timezone extension. But the times still don't make sense.
UTC should be 5 hours ahead, not behind. It should be EST plus 5 hours (or 4 for DST), not minus. That's why I said I expected 20:27 .
When I go to store this in a DB, I want to store the UTC time. How d I do that ?
insert into foo (dt) values (localtimestamp(0) at time zone 'utc') ???
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi:I would like to get the utc timestamp, 24-hr clock (military time), without the time zone suffix.Below commands were run nearly at the same time...sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) ;now---------------------2018-07-11 15:27:12(1 row)...then immediately...sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc' ;timezone------------------------2018-07-11 11:27:12-04(1 row)15:27:12 makes sense (it's a bout 3:30 in the afternoon EST).11:27:12 doesn't make sense. UTC is 5 hours ahead.Apparently it's only four hours ahead of your server's time zone setting.I would have expected either 20:27 (if it stuck to military time, which I want), or 08:27 (P.M., non-military time)And I want to get rid of the -04 suffix.Is there a way to do this ?Specify an appropriate format string with the to_char function.David J.
