Timestamp with timezone column in Prisma - prisma

Question

I am evaluating Prisma and I am a complete noob...
I am using Postgresql
I have the following model definition
model Sth {
id Int #default(autoincrement()) #id
createdAt DateTime #default(now())
updatedAt DateTime #updatedAt
expiresAt DateTime?
}
The createdAt column translates to
createdAt | timestamp(3) without time zone | | not null | CURRENT_TIMESTAMP
Since I am planing to really work with the timestamps - I need them to be timestamp with time zone.
How can I achieve this with Prisma?
Edit NOW() > '2021-02-16': Prisma now, has the "native types"
https://github.com/prisma/prisma/releases/tag/2.17.0
https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/api-reference/prisma-schema-reference#postgresql-6

Answer 1

For those of us living in the future, it is now possible to save records with timestamp with timezone for postgresql through Prisma's 'Native database type attribute'.
https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/api-reference/prisma-schema-reference#postgresql-6
Please note that for my database I had to set the timezone to 'UTC' so that the correct timezone is set to what I wanted by #default.
The above example with the Native database type attributes.
model Sth {
id Int #default(autoincrement()) #id
createdAt DateTime #default(now()) #db.Timestamptz(3)
updatedAt DateTime #updatedAt #db.Timestamptz(3)
expiresAt DateTime? #db.Timestamptz(3)
}

Answer 2

Currently the timestamptz field is not supported as Prisma automatically converts the Timestamp you sent to UTC. The support will be available in a further version of Prisma via this request.
As a workaround, you would need to convert the timestamp to a specific required timezone as Prisma would save it in UTC in the DB.