Thread: Timezone conversion
Is there a straightforward way to change the display of a time to another timezone? For example, my server's environment is EST (-0500); I want to convert timestamps for display in PST (-0800). What I've been doing is to use a Pl/Pgsql function to subtract the current timezone-offset and add in the desired one. Is there a way to do it without arithmetic?
On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jeff Boes wrote: > Is there a straightforward way to change the display of a time to another > timezone? For example, my server's environment is EST (-0500); I want to > convert timestamps for display in PST (-0800). What I've been doing is to use a > Pl/Pgsql function to subtract the current timezone-offset and add in the desired > one. Is there a way to do it without arithmetic? I think you might be able to use "AT TIME ZONE" to do what you want. I think it's described in Chapter 6 of the user's guide.
Stephan Szabo <sszabo@megazone23.bigpanda.com> writes: > On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jeff Boes wrote: >> Is there a straightforward way to change the display of a time to another >> timezone? For example, my server's environment is EST (-0500); I want to >> convert timestamps for display in PST (-0800). > I think you might be able to use "AT TIME ZONE" to do what you want. I > think it's described in Chapter 6 of the user's guide. Also, there's always the straightforward approach: temporarily change the TIMEZONE variable ;-) I believe AT TIME ZONE is new in 7.3. regards, tom lane