'NOW' in UTC with no timezone - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stuart Bishop
Subject 'NOW' in UTC with no timezone
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Msg-id 416B65D4.7020402@stuartbishop.net
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Responses Re: 'NOW' in UTC with no timezone  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hi.

I'm trying to determine the best way of saying 'The current time in UTC
with no time zone information'.

I'm currently using CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' and inserting
into columns defined as TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE which appears to
work. However, PostgreSQL parses this into the much more confusing
"timezone('UTC'::text, ('now'::text)::timestamp(6) with time zone)"
which is what is appearing on my generated documentation.

Is there any magic string like 'NOW'::timestamp or CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
which returns UTC time?

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Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net>
http://www.stuartbishop.net/
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