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Rohini Palaniswamy commented on PIG-4267:
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Timezones and dates are always tricky. Asking the original author of the code
as to what was the intent of the original code to ensure we are not breaking
something.
[~zjshen],
{code}
// ensure that the internal timezone is uniformly in UTC offset style
DateTimeZone.setDefault(DateTimeZone.forOffsetMillis(DateTimeZone.forID(dtzStr).getOffset(null)));
{code}
Can you tell us why this was done and and the impact of removing this?
> ToDate has incorrect timezone offsets
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> Key: PIG-4267
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-4267
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.12.0, 0.13.1
> Environment: java version 1.7.0_72
> Reporter: Brian Johnson
> Assignee: Brian Johnson
> Attachments: patch
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>
> If you set the timezone to 'America/New_York'
> Pig will return "2012-03-30 -05:00" for ToDate(1333166400000) instead of the
> correct "2012-03-31 -04:00"
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