Datetime stored incorrectly in postgresql

Issue type:

[x ] bug report

Database system/driver:

[ x] postgres

TypeORM version:

[ ] 0.2.6 (or put your version here)

Steps to reproduce or a small repository showing the problem:

The entity and test call below result in a timestamp in server time(rather than UTC) and without timezone information. This behavior exists as of pull request #1717 as far as I can tell.

@entity() export class DateTest {

@PrimaryGeneratedColumn(“uuid”) public id?: string;

@Column() public date?: Date; }

testRepository.save({date: new Date()});

A potentially dangerous result of this bug is that two different servers in different timezones, but accessing the same database, could read the same entry and construct different timestamps(not just differences in timezone).

The comment here by @chriskalmar is not the actual behavior for postgres. As shown in the example above, new Date() is not stored as UTC.

[pleerock]

Why is your server in different timezones? You shall use UTC in any server you have to avoid issues. Try to set process.env.TZ = "UTC"; in your app

[filipjnc]

I had the same problem (also postgres) and I fixed it with the following attribute for all date columns:

  @UpdateDateColumn({ type: 'timestamptz' })
  updatedAt: Date;

Have a look at these supported column types by TypeORM: http://typeorm.io/#/entities/column-types-for-postgres

Update: timestamptz is just an abbreviation of the timestamp with time zone mentioned above.