Thread: how do I change regional setting for dates?

how do I change regional setting for dates?

From
"Ligia Pimentel"
Date:
I live in Guatemala, and our timezone is GMT -6, but my server (postgres 7.1
on a linux redhat 6.2) is storing the dates in the format

2002-07-24 00:00:00-04 ( I this understand represents GMT -4).

My linux servers gives me the the date and time correctly, so I know is not
a matter of the date of the server, and I checked and its GMT-6 (which is
right) .

How do I change the regional setting in postgres?


Thanks,

Ligia




Re: how do I change regional setting for dates?

From
Robert Treat
Date:
You can do "show all" inside psql, which will show you all of your
current run time settings, including a line that should read "Time Zone
is unset" or whatever it is set to. 

This isn't abundantly clear in the docs, so I'll add some notation
there, but if you check out

http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-set.html
and
http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?timezones.html

it will explain how to update your internal timezone as needed. 

Robert Treat

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 15:38, Ligia Pimentel wrote:
> I live in Guatemala, and our timezone is GMT -6, but my server (postgres 7.1
> on a linux redhat 6.2) is storing the dates in the format
> 
> 2002-07-24 00:00:00-04 ( I this understand represents GMT -4).
> 
> My linux servers gives me the the date and time correctly, so I know is not
> a matter of the date of the server, and I checked and its GMT-6 (which is
> right) .
> 
> How do I change the regional setting in postgres?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ligia
> 
> 
> 
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