UTC time

Hi,
I'm looking for a way to get date/time formatted to UTC time out of the database:
When selecting SYSDATE, I got "local time", but what I really want is the UTC time instead.
Could anyone help me with that?
TIA!
eva

System time is, technically, UTC time.
Every application that then displays the time to you generally chooses to use your configured timezone information.
(Sometimes, Applications offer more flexibility. E.g. with Aperture you can tell it to treat the time on imported photograph files, which don't have any embedded timezone information, as being for a particular time; and can also tell it that the timezone of that photograph when displayed should be another. My cameras are always set to UTC, and generally my pictures are "Europe/London" when taken in the UK, giving me GMT and BST according to the time of year.)
What is it that you want to happen/ what is it that is displaying in one form, that you'd rather have display in another?

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