Re: Retrieving current date

On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM sivapostgres(at)yahoo(dot)com <
sivapostgres(at)yahoo(dot)com> wrote:

> Hello,
> May be a very basic question. We all here are new to Linux / PostgreSQL
>
> Ubuntu Server 22.04
> PostgreSQL 15
> PgAdmin4 6.16
>
> When I run the following query in pg_admin
>
> Select today_now
> From (Select localtimestamp(0) as today_now) a;
>
> I get UTC time and not the IST time, which I expect.
>
> How to change the setting(s), if any, to retrieve the current date and
> time in IST?
>

In addition, see what time zone the Linux server is at:

$ timedatectl | grep zone
Time zone: America/New_York (EDT, -0400)

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