Re: timestamp (military) at time zone without the suffix

On Wednesday, July 11, 2018, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I would like to get the utc timestamp, 24-hr clock (military time),
> without the time zone suffix.
>
> Below commands were run nearly at the same time...
>
> sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) ;
> now
> ---------------------
> 2018-07-11 15:27:12
> (1 row)
>
> ...then immediately...
>
> sqfdev=> select now()::timestamp(0) at time zone 'utc' ;
> timezone
> ------------------------
> 2018-07-11 11:27:12-04
> (1 row)
>
>
> 15:27:12 makes sense (it's a bout 3:30 in the afternoon EST).
> 11:27:12 doesn't make sense. UTC is 5 hours ahead.
>

Apparently it's only four hours ahead of your server's time zone setting.

>
I would have expected either 20:27 (if it stuck to military time, which I
> want), or 08:27 (P.M., non-military time)
>
> And I want to get rid of the -04 suffix.
>
> Is there a way to do this ?
>

Specify an appropriate format string with the to_char function.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/functions-formatting.html

David J.