Re: User time zone ignored in JDBC/PostgreSql

This is actually an artifact of the JDBC spec which at the moment eludes
me, but IIRC the time defaults to the time of the server running the
application; not the server.

AFAIK we don't even look at the user timezone.

Not sure that helps

Dave Cramer

davec(at)postgresintl(dot)com
www.postgresintl.com

On 6 December 2016 at 10:50, Clifton B. Sothoron Jr. <
Clifton(dot)SothoronJr(at)logianalytics(dot)com> wrote:

> I’ve created a user with a time zone of America/Chicago and a server time
> zone of America/New York. I run the following query and America/New York is
> returned. The user time zone setting is ignored. It doesn’t seem to be
> usable via JDBC.
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> select now(), extract(timezone FROM now()), current_setting('TIMEZONE'),
> now()-interval '1 hour' as "1HourAgo"
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> I don’t see any documented PostgreSQL JDBC connection properties that
> cause the user time zone to be honored. Is there a way to via a JDBC
> connection to cause the user time zone to be used?
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>
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> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Clifton Sothoron
>
> Senior Programmer
>
> Logi Analytics Inc.
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