Timezone with Postgres on Windows

Question

I am storing a time field in a timestamp without timezone column. The data is stored in UTC time. When I call the data back on heroku I get somehting like 2013-07-13T18:06:41.000Z which is what I want.

However, on my test machine, which is running windows 8 and postgres 9.3 I get this back Sat Jul 13 2013 18:06:41 GMT-0400 (Eastern Daylight Time). This is the right time sort of. It is the correct time with the offset to local time.

How can I match my production db to return the same or similar results to my test db?

Answer 1

It sounds like you want to run your test server with TimeZone set to UTC.

You can set this globally in postgresql.conf, or on a per-user, per-database, per-session or per-transaction basis.

See the manual.