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Zhijie Shen commented on PIG-1314: ---------------------------------- {quote} I believe you should be able to set the default timezone property in PigContext constructor, and also let user override the default. In backend, you can access the value using something like - PigMapReduce.sJobConfInternal.get().get("pig.datetime.default.tz"). {quote} Thank you, Thejas! Let me investigate this issue. > Add DateTime Support to Pig > --------------------------- > > Key: PIG-1314 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1314 > Project: Pig > Issue Type: Bug > Components: data > Affects Versions: 0.7.0 > Reporter: Russell Jurney > Assignee: Zhijie Shen > Labels: gsoc2012 > Attachments: joda_vs_builtin.zip, PIG-1314-1.patch, PIG-1314-2.patch, > PIG-1314-3.patch, PIG-1314-4.patch, PIG-1314-5.patch > > Original Estimate: 672h > Remaining Estimate: 672h > > Hadoop/Pig are primarily used to parse log data, and most logs have a > timestamp component. Therefore Pig should support dates as a primitive. > Can someone familiar with adding types to pig comment on how hard this is? > We're looking at doing this, rather than use UDFs. Is this a patch that > would be accepted? > This is a candidate project for Google summer of code 2012. More information > about the program can be found at > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/PIG/GSoc2012 -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira