On 21/11/2017 14:42, Mark Rotteveel wrote:
>
> If you need that, you also need to store the actual timezone
> somewhere. PostgreSQL for example also uses an offset for timestamp
> with timezone (not sure if that is required by SQL standard though).
>
Each "TIMESTAMP-TZ" has a hour/minute offset associated with it. It does
not only store an absolute value in GMT/UTC.

The offset can be EXTRACTed with TIMEZONE_HOUR / TIMEZONE_MINUTE.


Adriano


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