On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:45 AM Simon King <si...@simonking.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:21 AM jca...@gmail.com <jcas...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Does a means exist to generically call a local datetime func such that > it renders as SYSDATE in Oracle and GETDATE() in SQL Server? > > > > Thanks, > > jlc > > > > Do you need those functions explicitly? I think both databases support > the CURRENT_TIMESTAMP function (which you'd access as > sqlalchemy.func.current_timestamp()). > > If you really do want to use different functions based on the > database, the compiler extension is what you want: > > https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/core/compiler.html#utc-timestamp-function > > Hope that helps, > > Simon > Hi Simon, I originally was relying on a utc datetime and was surprised to see that was inconsistent with the rest of the application. As surprising as it, I do need a local time and your example is perfect. Thank you very much! jlc -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/CAMogvAeTJ_T6YyFcj2V01wuEC4CXhsHnPN_rgSVsvq%2B80YHadQ%40mail.gmail.com.
