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Old 04-29-11, 05:10
alwayssathya alwayssathya is offline
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Question Timezones and timestamp

Hi experts,

I have a table in my DB which will store the location and timestamp, in which my customer is from different timezones, is there any way which store the timestamp in the same format

say GMT timestmp in GMT standard,
Pacific timestamp in PACIFIC standard.

is there any configurations can be made or changed to achieve this in db2,

pl. putin your suggestions
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Old 04-29-11, 09:53
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A timestamp column in DB2 has no knowledge about timezones. It is just a timestamp. It is up to the application to define what that timestamp means (GMT, PDT, local time, etc).

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