Why does postgres work with timezones so strangely?

Question

PostgreSQL

select timezone('+03:00 UTC', now()), timezone('Europe/Minsk', now())

Outputs 2020-08-13 17:46:29.670451, 2020-08-13 22:46:29.670451

Why in 1 case it took 3 hours

Answer 1

in the timezone, the offset is indicated with a different sign
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