A discussion thread from comp.lang.java about the magic number
(first four bytes) of Java class files.

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And why you may need to repeat AT TIME ZONE 'UTC' twice.

Postgres has these 2 timestamp types: timestamp and timestamptz.

timestamp doesn't contain the timezone information. Technically, it doesn't represent a time in the real world. Thinking about it deeply…