Re: UTC-6 or UTC+6?

Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> template1=# select '2019-10-22 16:00:00' at time zone 'Europe/Rome' as my_time
> , '2019-10-22 16:00:00' at time zone 'America/Denver' as what_should_be,
> '2019-10-22 16:00:00' at time zone 'UTC-6' as utc_minus_6,
> '2019-10-22 16:00:00' at time zone 'UTC+6' as utc_plus_6;
> -[ RECORD 1 ]--+--------------------
> my_time | 2019-10-22 16:00:00
> what_should_be | 2019-10-22 08:00:00
> utc_minus_6 | 2019-10-22 20:00:00
> utc_plus_6 | 2019-10-22 08:00:00

> Now, the denver time should be 8:00, which is what is reported as
> UTC+6, but as far as I know Denver is UTC-6 (in daylight saving). What
> am I missing here?

Timezone names of that form are interpreted per the POSIX standard,
which uses positive for west-of-Greenwich, unlike the ISO standard
which uses the opposite sign. See

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES

regards, tom lane