Feb 23, 2018 · UTC, which stands for Coordinated Universal Time in English, is defined by atomic clocks, but is otherwise the same. In UTC a second always has the same length. Leap seconds are …

Apr 23, 2010 · I have recently updated my system to record date/times as UTC as previously they were storing as local time. I now need to convert all the local stored date/times to UTC. I was wondering if …

Background JavaScript's Date object tracks time in UTC internally, but typically accepts input and produces output in the local time of the computer it's running on. It has very few facilities for working …

May 17, 2013 · I have a column of the TIMESTAMP WITHOUT TIME ZONE type and would like to have that default to the current time in UTC. Getting the current time in UTC is easy: postgres=# select …

I usually have an "interceptor" that right before reading/writing from/to the database does DateTime conversion (from UTC to local time, and from local time to UTC), so I can use DateTime.Now (

Apr 11, 2013 · For Python 3, use datetime.now(timezone.utc) to get a timezone-aware datetime, and use to convert it to a timestamp.

Jun 1, 2016 · Assume a program running in (British Standard Time)BST generates a date time value for current time in UTC (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.SSSZ) format. Also assume current time in London …

Mar 27, 2014 · Starting from Oracle 19c, a new function is introduced which is TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP_TZ The SQL function TO_UTC_TIMESTAMP_TZ takes an ISO 8601 date …

10 Some people have pointed out that ‘ToUniversalTime’ is somewhat unsafe in that it can cause unintended incorrect time dispalys. Expanding on that I’m providing a more detailed example of a …

The resulting utc object isn't really a UTC date, but a local date shifted to match the UTC time (see comments). However, in practice it does the job. Update: The above answer from 2012 was a quick …