=?utf-8?q?PG_Bug_reporting_form?= <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> 1. What did you do?
> SET TIME ZONE 'utc';
> SELECT TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40' AT TIME ZONE '+8';
> 2. What did you expect to see?
> timezone
> ------------------------
> 2001-02-16 12:38:40+00
You're apparently confused about the sign of time zone offsets.
In a POSIX-style zone name, which is what you have there, plus
means west of Greenwich; so this is the right answer:
> 3. What did you see instead?
> timezone
> ------------------------
> 2001-02-17 04:38:40+00
See
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/datatype-datetime.html#DATATYPE-TIMEZONES
notably the comment that
Another issue to keep in mind is that in POSIX time zone names,
positive offsets are used for locations west of Greenwich. Everywhere
else, PostgreSQL follows the ISO-8601 convention that positive timezone
offsets are east of Greenwich.
If you want to use the ISO sign convention, you can do it with an
interval-type zone specification:
regression=# SELECT TIMESTAMP '2001-02-16 20:38:40' AT TIME ZONE '+8:00'::interval;
timezone
------------------------
2001-02-16 12:38:40+00
(1 row)
regards, tom lane