Re: timestamp (military) at time zone without the suffix

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg@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.