On 07/11/2018 12:59 PM, David Gauthier wrote:
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') ???
What is the data type for foo.dt?
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David G. Johnston
<david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:david.g.johnston@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, David Gauthier
<davegauthierpg@xxxxxxxxx <mailto: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.
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-formatting.html
<https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-formatting.html>
David J.
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