On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, David Gauthier <davegauthie...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi: > > I would like to get the utc timestamp, 24-hr clock (military time), > without the time zone suffix. > > Below commands were run nearly at the same time... > > sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) ; > now > --------------------- > 2018-07-11 15:27:12 > (1 row) > > ...then immediately... > > sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc' ; > timezone > ------------------------ > 2018-07-11 11:27:12-04 > (1 row) > > > 15:27:12 makes sense (it's a bout 3:30 in the afternoon EST). > 11:27:12 doesn't make sense. UTC is 5 hours ahead. > Apparently it's only four hours ahead of your server's time zone setting. > I would have expected either 20:27 (if it stuck to military time, which I > want), or 08:27 (P.M., non-military time) > > And I want to get rid of the -04 suffix. > > Is there a way to do this ? > Specify an appropriate format string with the to_char function. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-formatting.html David J.
