Thanks Everyone, they all work, but TL's seems to be the simplest...
select current_timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc'
I'm kinda stuck with the timestamp data type (vs timestamptz). Wondering if I can stick with that.
One last question...
I want to store the current UTC date/time in the DB. Does PG unconditionally store something like UTC, then let the queries figure out how they want to look at it (with "at time zone" and "to_char()" etc...) ? Or do I have to intentionally store the UTC value somehow?
Right now the code is just inserting and updating records using "localtimestamp(0)".