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From: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
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On Wed, May  6, 2026 at 10:13:03AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2026 at 6:52 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> I'm inclined to try to fix it via formatting: change HH and MM to
> >> lower case and wrap them in <replaceable> so they render in italics.
> 
> > And isn't replaceable usually something the user is expected to provide a
> > value for - not something the system populates?
> 
> No, I think it just means "this word is not literally what you'd see
> or type".

I came up with the attached patch.  I think 'mm' is just too much like
months so I sent with 'mi', and the "replaceable" tag was already there.

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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/func/func-formatting.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/func/func-formatting.sgml
index af9e2223998..e4edaf4f42c 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/func/func-formatting.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/func/func-formatting.sgml
@@ -424,8 +424,8 @@
        </row>
        <row>
         <entry><literal>OF</literal></entry>
-        <entry>time-zone offset from UTC (<replaceable>HH</replaceable>
-         or <replaceable>HH</replaceable><literal>:</literal><replaceable>MM</replaceable>)</entry>
+        <entry>time-zone offset from UTC (<replaceable>hh</replaceable>
+         or <replaceable>hh</replaceable><literal>:</literal><replaceable>mi</replaceable>)</entry>
        </row>
       </tbody>
      </tgroup>

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