Re: Time Zone design issues - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Time Zone design issues
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Msg-id 20070910155235.GC16512@svana.org
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In response to Re: Time Zone design issues  (novnov <novnovice@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:34:55AM -0700, novnov wrote:
> Your explanation of now() and localtime() is good...but localtime() to
> postgres acting as a web app db, wouldn't it just return the local time as
> far as the server is concerned?

It will return localtime relative to whatever you've configured the
timezone to be. Have your webapp execute "set timezone = 'foo'" at the
beginning of the session and everything will flow from there.

Have a nice day,
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Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
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