Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.
authorTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:40:41 +0000 (12:40 -0500)
committerTom Lane <[email protected]>
Fri, 7 Feb 2025 17:40:41 +0000 (12:40 -0500)
commitfe47f3897e99ec07ddc4ab4fcd777e546c8cc030
tree1fc5ac7d46bf2a2dbac0ce8f69a635d61f83390f
parentdc32ba249bff8244a6efa151c41483160888183d
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 <[email protected]>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173796426022.1064.9135167366862649513@wrigleys.postgresql.org
Backpatch-through: 13
doc/src/sgml/datatype.sgml
doc/src/sgml/glossary.sgml