Currently, our datetime input code thinks that any UTC offset of more
than 14:59:59 either way from Greenwich must be a mistake. However,
after seeing Patric Bechtel's recent bug report, I went trolling in the
Olson timezone files to see what are the largest offsets used there.
I found three entries that are further out than that:
# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
Zone Asia/Manila -15:56:00 - LMT 1844 Dec 31
Zone America/Juneau 15:02:19 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
Zone America/Metlakatla 15:13:42 - LMT 1867 Oct 18
These are all ancient history of course; it does not appear that any
zones *currently* use offsets larger than +/- 14 hours, which if memory
serves is what we considered when we set the existing sanity limit.
However, as pointed out by Patric, if you dump and restore an old
timestamptz value in one of these zones, it will fail to restore because
of the sanity check. I think therefore that we'd better enlarge the
allowed range to 15:59:59 either way.
regards, tom lane
