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2y ago
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Vinny
How can I make my Postgres schema automatically insert `UTC` time when using `defaultNow()`?
The example below is inserting the time using the timezone of my computer instead of UTC
.
createdAt
:
timestamp
(
'created_at'
).
defaultNow
(),
createdAt
:
timestamp
(
'created_at'
).
defaultNow
(),
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