On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 1:56 PM David G. Johnston < david.g.johns...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 1:34 PM Bryn Llewellyn <b...@yugabyte.com> wrote: > >> Reading between your lines, the answer to my question « Where is the >> syntax "<-08>+08" documented? » is NOWHERE! The "B.5. POSIX Time Zone >> Specifications" page that you pointed me to has not a single example of a >> "set timezone" statement that does in in the POSIX style. And not a single >> example of what "show timezone" gives after doing a POZIX style setting. >> (There's no hit for the left- or right-chevron on the page.) >> > > From the appendix: > > Reading again I find this: "In this syntax, a zone abbreviation can be a string of letters, such as EST, or an arbitrary string surrounded by angle brackets, such as <UTC-05>. Note that the zone abbreviations given here are only used for output, and even then only in some timestamp output formats." So, the definition of "STD" describes this - it's arguable whether adding the <> to the syntax diagram would be an improvement. David J.
