> It's the same, because the limits are calendar based (particularly,
> the Julian-date functions) and not dependent on the representation.
Hmmm? Just storing dates for the range described (until the year
294,000) takes 8bytes by my calculations. And that's without the 3
bytes for the time zone. Is my math off?
And, of course, this doesn't answer at all why time with time zone is so
huge.
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