diff --git a/Plugins/SnowflakeDriverPlugin/SnowflakeValueDecoder.swift b/Plugins/SnowflakeDriverPlugin/SnowflakeValueDecoder.swift
index c85b6fa6d..4aa2888cc 100644
--- a/Plugins/SnowflakeDriverPlugin/SnowflakeValueDecoder.swift
+++ b/Plugins/SnowflakeDriverPlugin/SnowflakeValueDecoder.swift
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ enum SnowflakeValueDecoder {
         let fields = raw.split(separator: " ", omittingEmptySubsequences: true)
         guard fields.count == 2, let biased = Int(fields[1]) else { return .text(raw) }
         let offsetMinutes = biased - offsetBias
-        guard abs(offsetMinutes) < minutesPerDay else { return .text(raw) }
+        guard abs(offsetMinutes) <= maximumOffsetMinutes else { return .text(raw) }
         return timestamp(
             fromEpochSeconds: String(fields[0]),
             scale: scale,
@@ -117,8 +117,13 @@ enum SnowflakeValueDecoder {
     // MARK: - Constants
 
     private static let secondsPerDay = 86_400
-    private static let minutesPerDay = 1_440
     private static let offsetBias = 1_440
+
+    /// `TimeZone(secondsFromGMT:)` returns nil beyond eighteen hours, and `DatabaseDateParser` reads
+    /// that nil as GMT, so a `+18:30` suffix would come back as an instant eighteen and a half hours
+    /// from the one Snowflake sent. A payload that cannot survive the round trip keeps its raw text
+    /// instead of being written in a spelling the reader will misread.
+    private static let maximumOffsetMinutes = 1_080
 }
 
 /// How a decoded timestamp names the zone it was read in. `TIMESTAMP_NTZ` genuinely has none, so it
diff --git a/TableProTests/Plugins/SnowflakeValueDecoderTests.swift b/TableProTests/Plugins/SnowflakeValueDecoderTests.swift
index 3403e5636..b2018f804 100644
--- a/TableProTests/Plugins/SnowflakeValueDecoderTests.swift
+++ b/TableProTests/Plugins/SnowflakeValueDecoderTests.swift
@@ -155,6 +155,17 @@ struct SnowflakeValueDecoderTests {
         #expect(decodedText("1616173619.000000000 9999", "timestamp_tz", scale: 0) == "1616173619.000000000 9999")
     }
 
+    /// `TimeZone(secondsFromGMT:)` is nil beyond eighteen hours and the shared parser reads that nil
+    /// as GMT, so emitting `+18:30` would move the instant by eighteen and a half hours. Eighteen
+    /// hours exactly is the last offset that survives the round trip.
+    @Test("An offset the shared parser cannot represent keeps its raw text")
+    func testOutOfRangeOffsetIsPreserved() {
+        #expect(decodedText("0.000000000 2520", "timestamp_tz", scale: 0) == "1970-01-01 18:00:00+18:00")
+        #expect(decodedText("0.000000000 360", "timestamp_tz", scale: 0) == "1969-12-31 06:00:00-18:00")
+        #expect(decodedText("0.000000000 2550", "timestamp_tz", scale: 0) == "0.000000000 2550")
+        #expect(decodedText("0.000000000 330", "timestamp_tz", scale: 0) == "0.000000000 330")
+    }
+
     /// The wire writes nine decimal places, so the value carries more significant digits than a
     /// `Double` holds. Parsing it as a floating-point number drops the last nanoseconds silently.
     @Test("Nanosecond precision survives decoding")