Re: Date trunc in UTC - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Date trunc in UTC
Date
Msg-id 200211201024.17210.dev@archonet.com
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In response to Date trunc in UTC  (Thrasher <thrasher@fibers.upc.es>)
List pgsql-sql
On Wednesday 20 Nov 2002 9:44 am, Thrasher wrote:
> Hi
>
> I do not know if it's an error, but in this query
>
> =# select date_trunc ('month', now ());
>         date_trunc
> ------------------------
>   2002-11-01 00:00:00+01
> (1 row)
>
> I've got the truncated date dependant to my timezone.
>
> Instead, I would like to have as a result
>
>   2002-11-01 01:00:00+01
>
> which is correct, but I cannot set the whole server to UTC. Any way to
> get this ?

Perhaps SET TIME ZONE is what you want. See the manual section on date/time
types for details.

--  Richard Huxton


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