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

OK, the "to_char" gets rid of the timezone extension. But the times still
don't make sense.

UTC should be 5 hours ahead, not behind. It should be EST plus 5 hours (or
4 for DST), not minus. That's why I said I expected 20:27 .

When I go to store this in a DB, I want to store the UTC time. How d I do
that ?

insert into foo (dt) values (localtimestamp(0) at time zone 'utc') ???

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 3:45 PM, David G. Johnston <
david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>