"joe collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see that
> LOCALTIMESTAMP and LOCALTIMESTAMP() are synonyms for NOW()
> when I use now() I get the database time but
> I have a webhost based in US (Pacific Time), however most database events
> will be generated from BST and this is the time zone I want to use to
> populate audit trail tables etc. I could programmatically compensate the US
> time zone by adding the hours to make up the BSTis there any neater way
> of doing this, as this solution would involve some hard coding.
Use DATE_ADD()/DATE_SUB() functions:
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Date_and_time_functions.html
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