19 July 2018
- Sequelize will save datetime with timezone in postgres.
- Sequelize will always save datetime in UTC.
- Sequelize will retrieve datetime based on server timezone settings.
- Zeit Now.sh
sfo1
servers are in UTC. - Amazon RDS
us-west-1
database instances are in UTC. - When writing datetime to the database, sequelize will automatically convert the incoming client datetime to UTC, based on the timezone specified in
sequelize.options.timezone
. - When reading datetime from the database, sequelize will return datetime in UTC. The server or client is expected to be responsible for formatting this datetime back to the user's locale.