Aleksander Alekseev <aleksander(at)timescale(dot)com> writes:
> Alternatively we could provide timezone_iso(text, timestamp[tz])
> functions that just replace all the +'s to -'s and vice versa in its
> first argument and then calls timezone().
That will add confusion, not reduce it.
> Thoughts?
I think this is a documentation issue, specifically that Section 8.5.3
is not sufficiently in-your-face about "UTC+2" not meaning what you
probably think. We didn't really do anybody any favors by shoving
those details off to Appendix B.
regards, tom lane