TIMEZONE

Returns the timezone for the current connection.

Databend uses UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) as the default timezone and allows you to change the timezone to your current geographic location. For the available values you can assign to the timezone setting, refer to https://docs.rs/chrono-tz/latest/chrono_tz/enum.Tz.html. See the examples below for details.

Syntax

SELECT TIMEZONE();

Examples

-- Return the current timezone
SELECT TIMEZONE();

┌────────────┐
│ timezone() │
├────────────┤
│ UTC        │
└────────────┘

-- Set the timezone to China Standard Time
SET timezone='Asia/Shanghai';

SELECT TIMEZONE();

┌───────────────┐
│   timezone()  │
├───────────────┤
│ Asia/Shanghai │
└───────────────┘