Heston, Heston James - Cold Beans wrote: > > Hello Guys, > > This might seem like a bit of a naive question but I’m looking for > your advice. Being from the UK we operate on Daylight Savings Time > which gives us a one hour offset on times for a few months of the year. > > I currently have a DateTime column which is declared like so: > > created = Column(DateTime, default=func.now()) > > modified = Column(DateTime, default=func.now(), onupdate=func.now()) > > Which generally works very well, when I create a record it inserts the > current locale time into the column, however, it stores the datetime > with DST applied too it. As I use the datetime at a later point for > posting over web services I really need to store the UTC version of > now() in the database, without DST applied to it. > > How can I modify the above column definition to do this? Can I simply > use something instead of func.now()? I was given the advise to use > func.now() by someone but not really sure what it returns, is it a > datetime.datetime object? Or a time tuple? > > Or is there a parameter I can pass to Column() or DateTime() which > will ensure it uses the UTC format of the date when creating and > modifying records? > IIUC func.now is a database function.
You should be able to use datetime instead i.e.: created = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow) modified = Column(DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow, onupdate=datetime.datetime.utcnow) Werner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To post to this group, send email to sqlalchemy@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sqlalchemy?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
