Kinda' depend on what exactly you want to do. If you want your application to always use local time no matter where it's run:
select('now','localtime'); If you want to know how far off of UTC you are do this: select round((julianday('now','localtime')-julianday('now'))*24); In my case this returns -5 for Central Daylight Time. If your case you should 2 hours. If the time has any meaning across timezones where your applicaiton is run you should stick with UTC and perhaps just display local time to the users. sqlite> select datetime('now'); 2012-06-27 16:14:46 sqlite> create table t(mydate); sqlite> insert into t values(datetime('now')); sqlite> select datetime(mydate,'localtime') from t; 2012-06-27 11:17:13 Michael D. Black Senior Scientist Advanced Analytics Directorate Advanced GEOINT Solutions Operating Unit Northrop Grumman Information Systems From: sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org [sqlite-users-boun...@sqlite.org] on behalf of deltagam...@gmx.net [deltagam...@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2012 10:45 AM To: j...@kreibi.ch; General Discussion of SQLite Database Subject: EXT :Re: [sqlite] sqlite time is 2 hours to late Am 27.06.2012 17:40, schrieb Jay A. Kreibich: > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 05:37:55PM +0200, deltagam...@gmx.net scratched on > the wall: > >> Hello, >> >>> sqlite3 event.db "select datetime('now')"; >> gives me a time that is 2 hours too late ( 2012-06-27 15:33:13) >> than my system time ( win 7 ) 17::33:13 >> >> How can this be fixed ? > Move two timezones to the west. > > (By default all times and dates are UTC.) > > -j > > I use this from within a c++ application char create_sql[] = "CREATE TABLE if not exists eventlog (" "id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY," "eventdate DATETIME default current_timestamp," "eventtype TEXT," ")"; How do I get the right time in the the column eventdate ? How to move timezones ? _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users