Re: How do we get the Client-Time and Server-Time from psql ?

On 06/02/2010 03:29 PM, raghavendra t wrote:

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Suppose am at the server-end, how could i get the client-time. Its really troublesome when compared with the timezone column in a table.

Not sure what you are getting at. You are always connected to the server _through_ a client and you _tell_ the server your timezone preferences.

As long as you are using timestamptz and as long as the client properly sets its preferred time-zone prior to issuing queries or gives fully-qualified timestamps with TZ, then you are fine.

Alternately, you can use (for libpq clients) the PGTZ environment variable.

Or you can set things on a per-user basis:
alter user foo set timezone to 'SOMETZ';

Or for things like web-apps where the client-side of the connection to the database is probably through a single database-user and the actual users are all over the place you can set up a table of user-preferences and set the timezone appropriately.

Cheers,
Steve