Re: How to make PostgreSQL JDBC drive get PGTZ?

What version of the database and jdbc driver are you using? This should
be fixed and work correctly in current sources.

thanks,
--Barry

Raymond Chui wrote:

> My system time zone (TZ) is set to US Eastern Standard Time is -5 hours
> of
> GMT time
>
> I set
> export PGTZ=GMT
> then go to psql do
>
> insert into a_table (a_column) values ('2001-02-08 18:30:00+00');
> select a_column from a_table;
>
> will get result exactly what I inserted
> 2001-02-08 18:30:00+00
>
> But when I used JDBC drive from org.postgresql.Driver to insert the same
> value,
> I got
>
> 2001-02-08 23:30:00+00
>
> This is the value of GMT time at 18:30 of EST time! Which tell me
> the Postgres JDBC drive insert the value in EST time. Why is that?
>
> I already did
> Properties p = new Properties();
> p.put("PGTZ", "GMT");
> before connect to PostgreSQL server, but no luck!
>
> Can someone out there tell me how to make PostgreSQL JDBC drive
> get PGTZ environment variable effect?
>
> Thank you very much in advance!
>
> --Raymond