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PostgreSQL utc_now() needs to have specific UTC timezone #9

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yesthesoup opened this issue Mar 16, 2020 · 0 comments

yesthesoup commented Mar 16, 2020

default_sql_now returns CURRENT_TIMESTAMP for psql, but without specifying UTC this returns the server's local time.

SQLAlchemy docs recommend the following implementation for a psql utc_now():

@compiles(utcnow, 'postgresql')
def pg_utcnow(element, compiler, **kw):
    return "TIMEZONE('utc', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)"

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