Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.
authorTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:40:41 +0000 (12:40 -0500)
committerTom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:40:41 +0000 (12:40 -0500)
commit9f6ad2f43c2fd94cfca99bb178d4eb03754cdd9d
tree0476a71141f2e96802b87c91ea79a7cad4a0c7b4
parentceeae767042f67e548c8792262aa9f7aefb58d00
Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.

Try to make it absolutely plain that we don't retain the
originally specified time zone, only the UTC timestamp.

While at it, make glossary entries for "UTC" and "GMT".

Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173796426022.1064.9135167366862649513@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml