Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:06:31 -0400
From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Dave Cramer <davecramer@postgres.rocks>, Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>,
	Kirk Parker <khp@equatoria.us>,
	Richard Neill <rjn@richardneill.org>, github@richardneill.org,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Please clarify that Timestamp with Timezone doesn't preserve the
 timezone.
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On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 03:46:14PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2026 at 02:02:15PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Okay, here is the patch with "conversion".
> > 
> > timetz does store a UTC offset, so it needs to be discussed separately.
> > I don't think applying the same verbiage to time and timestamp will
> > produce anything except more confusion.
> 
> I see what you mean --- updated patch attached.
> 
> If we want to be more explicit we could change "including time zone
> conversion" to "including time zone conversion to/from UTC".

Applied back to PG 19.

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