Re: ISO8601 vs POSIX offset clarification

Sorry I didn't mean for it to come out as a complaint, just that I am
confused since the result of the SQL query was not what I expected. I
expected +11:00 to be 11 hours east of UTC which wasn't the case.

On 4 December 2017 at 13:55, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:

> Bharanee Rathna <deepfryed(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > the documentation around how numeric offsets are parsed from strings is a
> > bit confusing, are they supposed to be treated as ISO8601 or POSIX ?
>
> Our documentation about this says clearly that Postgres considers offsets
> to be ISO (positive-east-of-Greenwich) everywhere except in POSIX-style
> time zone names.
>
> > The Table 8-12. Time Zone Input section at
> > https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/datatype-datetime.html seems
> to
> > imply that numeric offsets would be treated as ISO8601.
>
> How do you read an entry such as
>
> -8:00 | ISO-8601 offset for PST
>
> as being in any way vague about which convention the "-8" is read in?
>
> regards, tom lane
>