I'm writing a program using Golang (1.17.8), storing information in a MariaDB (10.6.5) database. I often need to store a created_at field inserted as current_timestamp() which is pretty common. My system time is UTC 1.00 (BST) and I'm working with Windows 10 (21H1) MariaDB is set to use system time and from the command line both SELECT NOW() and SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP() output exactly that. Logging the output of the Golang function time.Now() also gives system time. If I insert time.Now() from my program into my MariaDB table it is inserted as UTC Perhaps a simple reason exists for this but I do not know why. I have not ever used a different timezone and as mentioned, MariaDB reports it is using system time anyhow. How can I change this please ?

CodePudding user response：

As the documentation states, this is normal behavior in the absence of a timezone. Which time zone would you wish to use in your output?

Is your server in the UTC timezone by any chance?