| From: | Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> | 
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| To: | "Vinayak *EXTERN*" <vinpokale(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> | 
| Subject: | Re: Timezone difference between Oracle SYSDATE and PostgreSQL timestamp functions | 
| Date: | 2014-08-29 09:51:12 | 
| Message-ID: | A737B7A37273E048B164557ADEF4A58B17D2FA61@ntex2010i.host.magwien.gv.at | 
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Vinayak wrote:
> We have converted Oracle SYSDATE to PostgreSQL statement_timestamp() but
> there is a difference in timezone.
> SYSDATE returns the time on the server where the database instance is
> running(returns operating system time) so the time depends on the OS
> timezone setting.
> while the timezone of postgreSQL
> statement_timestamp()/now()/clock_timestamp() depends on the DBMS setting.
> so I think timezone settings are different between DBMS and OS.
[...]
> Any idea how can we set OS timezone on PostgreSQL?
If you mean the *server's* OS timezone, I guess you'd have to write
a C function that does something similar to identify_system_timezone()
in bin/initdb/findtimezone.c.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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