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Configure The Timezone

In postgres, running show timezone; will reveal the timezone for your connection. If you want to change the timezone for the duration of the connection, you can run something like

> set timezone='America/New_York';
SET
> show timezone;
 TimeZone
------------------
 America/New_York
(1 row)

Now, if you run a command such as select now();, the time will be in Eastern time.

h/t Jack Christensen

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