Name

timezone — get timezone difference from a datetime

Synopsis

timezone ( in dt datetime ,
in ignore_timezone integer );

Description

The function returns timezone offset of its first argument, as an integer value in minutes. If the first argument is timezoneless and second argument is missing or zero then the returned value is NULL. If the first argument is timezoneless and second argument is nonzero then the returned value is 0.

Parameters

dt

A datetime .

ignore_timezone

Flag

Examples

Example24.420.Simple example

Get current timezone.

SQL> select timezone (now ());
callret
INTEGER
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