On 14 Dec 2014 14:14:21 -0800, "emadour@... [firebird-support]"
<firebird-support@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

> Unfortunately we're using 1.5 so "NOW" isn't available to us.
>
> We're running the statements in real-time so a 30 minute difference is
> definitely wrong.. It is also exactly 30 minutes which leads me to

believe

> there's some kind of funny offset due to timezone or something to that
> effect that we aren't seeing for whatever reason. I thought if I

figured

> out where the "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP" statement is pulling its time from I
> would know where to look for the issue.

Do you also get this 30 minute difference if you execute SELECT
CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM RDB$DATABASE from ISQL and/or Flamerobin, or only
inside your application?

What is your own timezone, and what is the server timezone?

Mark

The last time i've seen such behaviour, we found there was another job scheduled every 30 minutes
that took all the resources

Regards

Bogdan