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Doc: clarify behavior of timestamptz input some more.

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

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Commit: fe47f3897e99ec07ddc4ab4fcd777e546c8cc030
Author: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Date: 2025-02-07T17:40:41Z
Releases: 13.19 
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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