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Julian Hyde commented on ARROW-637: ----------------------------------- Looks good. Except that you should support offsets as well as timezone names. That probably just means changing the comment at this point. > [Format] Add time zone metadata to Timestamp type > ------------------------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-637 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-637 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Format > Reporter: Wes McKinney > Assignee: Wes McKinney > > As a metadata-only convenience, it would be useful to have an optional Olson > time zone name in the {{Timestamp}} flatbuffers type: > https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Message.fbs#L94 > Null or length-0 string would indicate that the data has no time zone (UTC) -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346)