we do this (for PG and SQL Server):
class utcnow(expression.FunctionElement):
key = 'utcnow'
type = DateTime()
@compiles(utcnow, 'postgresql')
def _pg_utcnow(element, compiler, **kw):
return "TIMEZONE('utc', CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)"
@compiles(utcnow, 'mssql')
def _ms_utcnow(element, compiler, **kw):
return "GETUTCDATE()"
you then use utcnow() as your SQL expression.
just remembered i put it in the docs too:
http://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/rel_0_8/core/compiler.html#utc-timestamp-function
On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:51 PM, Owen M <owenm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Was hunting around for how to do this, and couldn't find any examples, but
> eventually figured it out.
>
> Goal is to have all dates coming out of Postgres to be in UTC, regardless of
> the DBA's timezone configuration.
>
> Key piece of code is as follows:
>
> import sqlalchemy
> def set_utc_on_connect(dbapi_con, con_record):
> c = dbapi_con.cursor()
> c.execute("SET TIME ZONE UTC")
> c.close()
> sqlalchemy.event.listen(sqlalchemy.pool.Pool, 'connect', set_utc_on_connect)
>
> Now all connections in the pool will have their timezone set to UTC, so all
> queries will return UTC for datetime objects with timezone specified.
>
> Just posting it here incase someone else needed the info.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Owen
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