Re: Timezone information - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Timezone information
Date
Msg-id 20140219215658.GB29726@crankycanuck.ca
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In response to Re: Timezone information  (Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Timezone information  (Dev Kumkar <devdas.kumkar@gmail.com>)
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:22:15AM +0530, Dev Kumkar wrote:
>
> Hmm. Missed one observation here, created a test table with timestamp
> column of type 'default current_timestamp'.
> When the query is executed from JDBC then it stores OS specific local time
> into this column.

Probably the JDBC driver is setting its TimeZone.  Really, try it:

SET TimeZone="UTC";
SELECT now();

SET TimeZone="EST5EDT";
SELECT now();

and so on.  Try selecting from your table, too, and you will discover
that the time zone of the timestamps changes.  If you're used to
certain other RDBMSes, this mode of functioning will be unusual, but
that really is how it works.

Best regards,

A

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Andrew Sullivan
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