At 11:14 a.m. 15/12/2014, emad...@yahoo.com.au [firebird-support] wrote:
>Unfortunately we're using 1.5 so "NOW" isn't available to us. Wrong. 'NOW' or 'now' was inherited from InterBase. CURRENT_TIMESTAMP came with IB6 or Fb 1.0, afair. Listen to what Sean said: 'NOW' gives you the time at execution of the statement instance, whereas CURRENT_TIMESTAMP gives you the time at the start of the operation. So, if you have multiple instances of a statement running in a batch, they will all have the same CURRENT_TIMESTAMP but different timestamps if you use 'Now'. Why not create a test that uses both? I hope you do know that single quotes and double quotes are not interchangeable in Firebird. The literal delimiter is single quotes. >We're running the statements in real-time so a 30 minute difference is >definitely wrong.. It is also exactly 30 minutes which leads me to believe >there's some kind of funny offset due to timezone or something to that effect >that we aren't seeing for whatever reason. No such thing exists. >I thought if I figured out where the "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" statement is pulling >its time from I would know where to look for the issue. System clock time. Maybe Server2003 has some anomaly related to daylight saving time...just a thought. Helen Borrie, Support Consultant, IBPhoenix (Pacific) Author of "The Firebird Book" and "The Firebird Book Second Edition" http://www.firebird-books.net __________________________________________________________________
