Github user jcamachor commented on the issue: https://github.com/apache/orc/pull/249 @wgtmac , thanks for the feedback. Please bear with me for a bit, as it is first time I am touching ORC code base. OK, I think ```TypeDescription``` is not a problem then since we set the value at reader / writer, independently of the default that we use at creation time. For reader, everything seems easy. However, for the writer, it is a bit trickier since the stripe footer stores the information about the time zone, hence it should be set beforehand using, e.g., the context or options objects. Does that seem reasonable?
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