By the way, my database table is using column type "timestamp" without time 
zone (only storing in UTC).

On Monday, February 25, 2013 3:10:00 PM UTC, Gummi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> My database has all datetime values as UTC.
> Now I want to map the values for various time zones (depending on 
> customers) and take daylight savings into an account.
>
> Here is a valid example in Postgres.  It queries the UTC based database 
> for values after 02:00 Danish time
>
> set time zone 'Europe/Copenhagen';
> select ts, ts at time zone 'Europe/Copenhagen'  from sample_ts
> where ts >= '2013-03-31 02:00:00' at time zone 'UTC';
>
> The 1st column is "ts" (in UTC), 2nd column is "ts" at Europe/Copenhagen 
> so the database maps the values to the correct time zone.
>
> I have been looking for how to do this in sqlalchemy without luck.  It 
> seems that this conversion must be done in Python even though the database 
> can do this in a perfect way.
>
> Has someone found a way to "allow" the database to handle this?
>
> Thanks,
>    - Gummi
>
>
>
>

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