Except you shouldn't do the GMT/PST part, because it can lead to people falsely believing that Postgres can handle time zones, leading to silent data corruption when the time zone definition changes - such as due to abolishing DST.
Postgres can only store 1) unzoned local time, or 2) UTC, with optional conversion on read/write.
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Except you shouldn't do the GMT/PST part, because it can lead to people falsely believing that Postgres can handle time zones, leading to silent data corruption when the time zone definition changes - such as due to abolishing DST.
Postgres can only store 1) unzoned local time, or 2) UTC, with optional conversion on read/write.