Re: Setting timezone: is it bug or intended? - Mailing list pgsql-bugs

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> As far as how to even document this, I have no idea.

It already is documented.  See
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
specifically the point that POSIX zone names have the opposite sign
convention from ISO-8601.

The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from ;-)

            regards, tom lane