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    <p>Either I'm being stupid or something's wrong here.</p> <p>I have two SQL Servers, the one is on my local machine (local time <strong>+2 GMT</strong>) and the other is somewhere else (<code>NOW()</code> seems to return <strong>+8 GMT</strong>)and I access it through phpMyAdmin. I have a table that has a <code>DATETIME</code> column. I'm trying </p> <blockquote> <p>to store the current <strong>GMT/UTC</strong> time and then display it again, still as GMT/UTC time.</p> </blockquote> <p>Originally I stored <code>DATE_SUB(NOW(), INTERVAL 8 HOUR)</code> which worked just fine. However, then I read about <code>UTC_TIMESTAMP()</code> and liked it more, as it was shorter and the <a href="http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/time-zone-support.html" rel="noreferrer"><code>MySQL manual</code></a> even said :</p> <blockquote> <p>"The current time zone setting does not affect values displayed by functions such as UTC_TIMESTAMP() or values in DATE, TIME, or DATETIME columns."</p> </blockquote> <p>So perfect right? Except no.</p> <p>Let's assume Current <strong>GMT is 2010-02-18 17:18:17</strong> (I even double checked it with someone in Britain).</p> <p>On <strong>my local (+2) server</strong>, I get the following results for the following queries: </p> <pre><code>SELECT NOW(); 2010-02-18 19:18:17 SELECT UTC_TIMESTAMP(); 2010-02-18 17:18:17 </code></pre> <p>On <strong>my online server</strong> I get: </p> <pre><code>SELECT NOW(); 2010-02-19 01:18:17 SELECT UTC_TIMESTAMP(); 2010-02-19 07:18:17 (WHY?!) </code></pre> <p>Am I missing something?!</p>
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