On 02/27/2018 12:16 PM, chris wrote:
>
> What is the best way of selecting current timestamp in UTC?
>
> SELECT
> CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as ct1
Well the above would depend on your database having its time zone
set to UTC.
> ,timezone('UTC',CURRENT_TIMESTAMP) as ct2
> ,timezone('utc',now()) as ct3
> ,CURRENT_TIMESTAMP at time zone 'UTC' as ct4
> ,NOW() at time zone 'utc' as ct5
The rest would do the job. The question becomes where are you planning
on calling these and what is tine you are looking for? See the below for
more information:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-datetime.html#FUNCTIONS-DATETIME-CURRENT
Basically the functions act differently in transactions, which will
affect the time returned.
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Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com