No I cannot use SET TIME ZONE.
SET TIME ZONE will be set by any client backend. But what I want to get
is that DATE_TRUNC('month', <now in timezone +1>) = DATE_TRUNC('month',
<now in timezone -7>).
Richard Huxton wrote:
> 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.
>
