Re: [GENERAL] date & time

On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, hoelc wrote:

> Hello,
> Can some one please tell me how to set the date&time in the PostgreSQL
> system?
> I try to use date('now') and time('now') to keep tract of the data and
> time when the data is inserted or updated. When I use sql " insert into
> table (data1, date_chg, time_chg) values ('abc',date('now'),time('now'))
> " to insert the date and time data, the data successfully inserted but
> when I retrive the data, it shows that the date and time is always "
> 01-01-2000 " and " 08:00:00 " , now is of couse not year 2000 and the
> time is also not 8 o'clock. Why? How should I correct this?
> I am using PostgreSQL in Linux system, and the date & time for Linux
> system are correct.
>

I use date(now()) and it seems to work ok for me. Until I added the ()
after now it was always some fixed date just like you have. Never tried
it with time.

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