You're right. This was my error.
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> On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:53 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Robert DiFalco <robert.difalco@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is there any way to set the timezone of the postgres server differently
>> than the OS? I *have* tried setting timezone = 'UTC' in my postgresql.conf
>> file but that seems to be a VIEW of time zone. It doesn't seem to behave
>> the same as running a postgresql server on a machine that is in UTC.
>
> You would need to be more precise about "doesn't seem to behave the same"
> for anyone to help you. Setting the timezone parameter (and perhaps
> log_timezone) should cover it, so far as the server is concerned.
>
> Are you sure your client-side code isn't doing something helpful with
> what it thinks the timezone is?
>
> regards, tom lane