Re: How to get TimeZone name? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Jasen Betts
Subject Re: How to get TimeZone name?
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Msg-id ihveau$92r$1@reversiblemaps.ath.cx
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In response to How to get TimeZone name?  (araza@esri.com)
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On 2011-01-18, araza@esri.com <araza@esri.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I get timezone name?
> I can get timezone offset but I could not find any reference of timezone name.

Change your datestyle setting, a setting of ISO gives nice portable
offsets that will work the same anywhere in the world.
a setting of SQL gives a locale-dependant rendering that looks nice
but is often ambiguous

> 1-
> sde10=> Select current_timestamp - current_timestamp AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' As TimeZoneOffSet;
>  timezoneoffset
> ----------------
>  -08:00:00
> (1 row)

What do you think the above is doing?


Is the following of any use to you?

set datestyle to 'sql,mdy';
select current_timestamp;


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