Greetings I'm in Florida (Eastern Time Zone / New York), using Ubuntu 10.04LTS / Postgresql 8.4.7.
My default timestamps in my database all are +5 hours in the future (probably GMT), unless I code the 'EST' time zone into the field's default (timezone('EST'::text, now())).If I use now() it is +5 hours, and if I use LOCALTIMESTAMP my SQL editor (EMS Postgresql Mgr) changes it to: 'now'::text::timestamp without time zone, which is also +5 hours. Anywhere I use LOCALTIMESTAMP in my functions, it is shifted +5 hours in the future. I must use timezone('EST'::text, now()) everywhere, rather than CURRENT_TIMESTAMP or LOCALTIMESTAMP. Major pain!! When I type date in Ubuntu Command line, I see correctly: Thu Feb 24 16:13:13 EST 2011 When I run dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, the linux time zone is correct: America / New York. I've set postgresql.conf --> time zone = 'America/New York' I've used: psql beta_main -c "SET TIME ZONE EST;" psql beta_main -c "SHOW TIME ZONE;" I've even reinstalled the Database from another server (where this is NOT happening!) after setting above stuff, and restarted postgresql, same results. -- Sent via pgsql-bugs mailing list (pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-bugs