Re: Timezone information

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Andrew Sullivan <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:22:15AM +0530, Dev Kumkar wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. Missed one observation here, created a test table with timestamp
> > column of type 'default current_timestamp'.
> > When the query is executed from JDBC then it stores OS specific local
> time
> > into this column.
>
> Probably the JDBC driver is setting its TimeZone. Really, try it:
>
> SET TimeZone="UTC";
> SELECT now();
>
> SET TimeZone="EST5EDT";
> SELECT now();
>
> and so on. Try selecting from your table, too, and you will discover
> that the time zone of the timestamps changes. If you're used to
> certain other RDBMSes, this mode of functioning will be unusual, but
> that really is how it works.
>

Yes had tried this earlier and it works as expected.

I think I missed that observation earlier and then was looking to set
timezone in postgreSQL.conf which could ultimately resolve this.
But better is to set the TimeZone. Now haven't done anything special but
JDBC is working with setting TimeZone and ODBC not. So what should I look
from here now?

Regards...