OK, the "to_char" gets rid of the timezone extension. But the times still don't make sense.
UTC should be 5 hours ahead, not behind. It should be EST plus 5 hours (or 4 for DST), not minus. That's why I said I expected 20:27 . When I go to store this in a DB, I want to store the UTC time. How d I do that ? insert into foo (dt) values (localtimestamp(0) at time zone 'utc') ??? On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > >
