1. What versions are you using?

platform.platform: Linux-5.3.18-24.64-default-x86_64-with-glibc2.3.4 sys.maxsize > 2**32: True platform.python_version: 3.6.13 oracledb.__version__: 1.4.2 server: Oracle Database 19c Enterprise Edition Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production 

2. Is it an error or a hang or a crash?
   Error: CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is returned as a timezone-unaware datetime

3. What error(s) or behavior you are seeing?

When running SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM DUAL on DBeaver I get a TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
When running the script at the bottom of this report I get:

(datetime.datetime(2023, 12, 20, 18, 33, 28, 585660),)
Which is not timezone-aware

5. Does your application call init_oracle_client()?

Yes it does

6. Include a runnable Python script that shows the problem.

import oracledb oracledb.init_oracle_client() host = "hostname" service_name = "servicename" pw = "dbpass" user = "username" connection = oracledb.connect( user=user, sid=service_name, password=pw, host=host) cursor = connection.cursor() ts = cursor.execute("SELECT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP FROM DUAL").fetchall() print("Current datetime: "+str(ts))