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Julian Hyde commented on ARROW-413: ----------------------------------- I think you have to specify semantics. Does a date value represent an instant (implicitly an offset from the UTC epoch) or is it a timezone-less value that each person can interpret in whichever timezone they want (say, their local timezone). > DATE type is not specified clearly > ---------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-413 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-413 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Format > Affects Versions: 0.1.0 > Reporter: Uwe L. Korn > > Currently the DATE type is not specified anywhere and needs to be documented. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)