[GENERAL] timezone, how postgres deal with it?

[Anibal David Acosta]

This query returns false

 

select ('2012-11-20 17:00:00-02:00'::timestamp with time zone) =
('2012-11-20 18:00:00-03:00'::timestamp with time zone)

 

Why?

 

Does postgres convert the datetime or just show/hide time zone?