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Help, Australian Time Problem

From
Dean Grubb
Date:
Is there a faq on this..cause boy it is giving me a headache.

System is FreeBSD 4.9
System date returns Tue Nov 25 16:32:36 EST 2003
Postgres Version is 7.3.4 installed from the port collection
I've set the datestyle to ISO, european
I've set australian_timezones to true
I've set TimeZone to local

I do a SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as today; or SELECT now();

and I get

2003-11-25 05:36:18.17298+00

which is 11 hours behind, how do I get it to report the correct time?

Dean

Re: Help, Australian Time Problem

From
Tom Lane
Date:
Dean Grubb <dean@atrium-online.com.au> writes:
> I've set TimeZone to local

That will certainly not work - TimeZone needs to be set to a string that
your system will recognize as a specific time zone.  (Unfortunately, a
bogus setting gets treated as "UTC" on most platforms, which in fact is
what you're seeing.)

I dunno what the standard BSD names are for the Aussie timezones; can
anyone help?  On HPUX you'd use something like 'EST-10EDT' but I'm not
sure about BSD...

            regards, tom lane

Re: Help, Australian Time Problem

From
Dean Grubb
Date:
>   On HPUX you'd use something like 'EST-10EDT' but I'm not
> sure about BSD...

I did 'EST-11EDT' and now select now(); shows

2003-11-26 08:12:58.015156+11

which is correct

thanks
Dean