Bharanee Rathna <deepfryed@gmail.com> writes:
> the documentation around how numeric offsets are parsed from strings is a
> bit confusing, are they supposed to be treated as ISO8601 or POSIX ?
Our documentation about this says clearly that Postgres considers offsets
to be ISO (positive-east-of-Greenwich) everywhere except in POSIX-style
time zone names.
> The Table 8-12. Time Zone Input section at
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-datetime.html seems to
> imply that numeric offsets would be treated as ISO8601.
How do you read an entry such as
-8:00 | ISO-8601 offset for PST
as being in any way vague about which convention the "-8" is read in?
regards, tom lane