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Responses Re: timetz need more bytes than timestamptz  (Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>)
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Hi,
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html
timetz, timestamptz:
same resolution.
fractional digits in the seconds field are also the same.
>
> All timezone-aware dates and times are stored internally in UTC. They are converted to local time in the zone specified by the TimeZone configuration parameter before being displayed to the client.

Why does timetz need more bytes (8 vs 12) than timestamptz?

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