Re: Per-query local timezone - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mark Morgan Lloyd
Subject Re: Per-query local timezone
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Msg-id it7j8p$jlt$1@pye-srv-01.telemetry.co.uk
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In response to Re: Per-query local timezone  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: Per-query local timezone  (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>)
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Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 09:40:20AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to incorporate SET TIMEZONE into a query, so that
>> to_char(...'TZ') etc. is appropriately localised?
>
> You seem to want "AT TIME ZONE".

Thanks for that. How can I do /this/

select to_char(now() at time zone 'GMT0BST', 'TZ');

It appears to return '', while if I used a separate SET TIMEZONE I'd
expect 'BST'.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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