Re: How to get the time zone offset

On Friday, December 30, 2011 8:19:51 am Cezariusz Marek wrote:

>
> Because I need more control. In this case I need the date in XML format, so
> it will be something like this:
>
> select to_char(clock_timestamp(), 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SSTZ');

So something like this:
test(5432)postgres=#select to_char(clock_timestamp(), 'YYYY-MM-DD"T"HH24:MI:SS') || extract(timezone_hour from clock_timestamp());
?column?
-----------------------
2011-12-30T08:34:22-8

>
> Is the timestamp::text format always the same, regardless of the current
> locale and language settings?

I don't know.

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