specify cqlsh output timezone

Question

I have a table in cassandra with a datatype of timestamp. i am using cqlsh to get data out of the database and wanted to change the output format for how my timestamp column

Answer 1

You can change your environment variable to get show timezone:

TZ=America/Los_Angeles cqlsh -k mpj `hostname` -e 'select time from userbehavior limit 3'

 time
--------------------------
 2015-02-15 21:17:03-0800
 2015-02-15 18:16:21-0800
 2015-02-15 00:04:52-0800

(3 rows)

and:

TZ=UTC cqlsh -k mpj `hostname` -e 'select time from userbehavior limit 3'

 time
--------------------------
 2015-02-16 05:17:03+0000
 2015-02-16 02:16:21+0000
 2015-02-15 08:04:52+0000

(3 rows)