Re: Strange timezone 'math' in 9.6.8

Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@cybertec.at> writes:
> Ervin Weber wrote:
>> staging=# select now(), now() at time zone 'fubar+167';
>> [works]
>> staging=# select now(), now() at time zone 'fubar+168';
>> ERROR:  time zone "fubar+168" not recognized

> The cause of the error is the following code in src/timezone/localtime.c,
> in function "getsecs":

Also note that that isn't our code; it's lock stock and barrel from the
IANA tzcode distribution,
https://www.iana.org/time-zones

So we are (probably) not the only software that will behave like this.

            regards, tom lane