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3 | 3 | <chapter id="datatype"> |
4 | 4 | <title id="datatype-title">Data Types</title> |
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2275 | 2275 | reasonableness of the zone abbreviations. For example, <literal>SET |
2276 | 2276 | TIMEZONE TO FOOBAR0</> will work, leaving the system effectively using |
2277 | 2277 | a rather peculiar abbreviation for UTC. |
| 2278 | + Another issue to keep in mind is that in POSIX time zone names, |
| 2279 | + positive offsets are used for locations <emphasis>west</> of Greenwich. |
| 2280 | + Everywhere else, <productname>PostgreSQL</productname> follows the |
| 2281 | + ISO-8601 convention that positive timezone offsets are <emphasis>east</> |
| 2282 | + of Greenwich. |
2278 | 2283 | </para> |
2279 | 2284 |
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2280 | 2285 | <para> |
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