Re: [GENERAL] Server timestamp

2009-05-03 Thread Craig Ringer
Chris Bartlett wrote: > Date and time functions like current_time return the client machine's > time. Er, no they don't. They return the server's time, adjusted to the client's time zone if the client specified its time zone using SET TIMEZONE. At least, that's how they behave here, and I can't i

Re: [GENERAL] Server timestamp

2009-05-03 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Chris Bartlett wrote: > Date and time functions like current_time return the client machine's time. > Is there a way of getting the database server's time? I have a situation > that requires comparison of a date stamp on records with "today", but I need > to avoid t

[GENERAL] Server timestamp

2009-05-03 Thread Chris Bartlett
Date and time functions like current_time return the client machine's time. Is there a way of getting the database server's time? I have a situation that requires comparison of a date stamp on records with "today", but I need to avoid the possibility of a user changing their computer's clock ti