Re: Date Timezone - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: Date Timezone
Date
Msg-id 20071122212011.GN4903@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Date Timezone  ("Andrew Maclean" <andrew.amaclean@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
Andrew Maclean wrote:
> I have a problem in that dates are stored as UTC in my dataase. I.e. without
> timezone.
>
> What I want to do: is to get this date from the server and add the server's
> current time zone to it. Then I will present a list of dates and times to
> the user in their time-zone.  How can I do this? I have been trying to get
> the timezone from now() and adding it but I can't see how.

alvherre=# select extract(timezone from now());
 date_part
-----------
    -10800
(1 row)

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