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Werner Daehn commented on AVRO-2328:
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`Sorry for being late in the game, but I believe this change is a mistake.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2950
Main argument: In Hadoop LocalDateTime has a meaning, the timestamp where the
Hadoop cluster is located. Avro is a data exchange format, it does not have a
location! ZonedDateTime would have been better.
> Support distinguishing between LocalDateTime and Instant semantics in
> timestamps
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>
> Key: AVRO-2328
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-2328
> Project: Apache Avro
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Zoltan Ivanfi
> Assignee: Nándor Kollár
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 1.10.0
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> Different SQL engines of the Hadoop stack support different timestamp
> semantics. The range of supported semantics is about to be extended even
> further. While some of the new timestamp types can be added to SQL without
> explicit support from the file formats, others require new physical types.
> File format support would be beneficial even for timestamp semantics where it
> is not strictly required, because it would enable correct interpretation
> without an SQL schema or any other kind of manual configuration.
> This JIRA is about supporting the LocalDateTime and Instant semantics. See
> [this
> document|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E-7miCh4qK6Mg54b-Dh5VOyhGX8V4xdMXKIHJL36a9U/edit#]
> for details.
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