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Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.

Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

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Commit: 11bba6e49407cbaa3a9cd317bb3a1f08b8c5609b
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-02-07T17:40:41Z
Releases: 18.0 
Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.

Try to make it absolutely plain that we don't retain the
originally specified time zone, only the UTC timestamp.

While at it, make glossary entries for "UTC" and "GMT".

Author: Robert Treat <rob@xzilla.net>
Co-authored-by: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/173796426022.1064.9135167366862649513@wrigleys.postgresql.org
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