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Virtuoso Functions Guide

Administration
Aggregate Functions
Array Manipulation
BPEL APIs
Backup
Compression
Cursor
Date & Time Manipulation
datestring, ...
curdate
dateadd
datediff
datestring_gmt
dayname
dayofmonth
dayofweek
dayofyear
dt_set_tz
get_timestamp
getdate
hour
minute
month
monthname
msec_time
now
quarter
second
stringdate
stringtime
timezone
week
Debug
Dictionary Manipulation
Encoding & Decoding
File Manipulation
Free Text
Hashing / Cryptographic
LDAP
Locale
Mail
Miscellaneous
Number
RDF data
Remote SQL Data Source
Replication
SOAP
SQL
String
Transaction
Type Mapping
UDDI
User Defined Types & The CLR
Virtuoso Java PL API
Virtuoso Server Extension Interface (VSEI)
Web Server & Internet
XML
XPATH & XQUERY

Functions Index

datestring_GMT

convert a timestamp to external format string in GMT
datestring_GMT (in dt datetime);
Parameters
dt – A datetime value.
Return values

A VARCHAR containing the external representation.

Description

Converts the local datetime to GMT and returns its external representation as a string.

Examples
Example with datestring_GMT

We are at central european time zone CET(GMT+1).

SQL> use Demo;

 Done. -- 3 msec.
 SQL> select (datestring_GMT (stringdate ('2000-01-01 22:00')));
 callret
 VARCHAR
 _______________________________________________________________________________

 2000-01-01 21:00:00.000000

 1 Rows. -- 45 msec.
See Also

datestring, stringdate

The discussion of TIMESTAMP datatype in section Database Concepts of the documentation.