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Russell Jurney commented on AVRO-739:
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Ints were used in Pig's datetime and it resulted in a bad situation where you
can't read a timestamp from the raw data. ISO8601 strings are much better - any
program and any person can read them.
> Add Date/Time data types
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> Key: AVRO-739
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-739
> Project: Avro
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: spec
> Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
> Fix For: 1.7.8
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> Attachments: AVRO-739-datetime-spec.xml.patch,
> AVRO-739-datetime-spec.xml.patch, AVRO-739-update-spec.diff, AVRO-739.patch
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