jonkeane commented on a change in pull request #12506:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12506#discussion_r832144791



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File path: r/R/dplyr-funcs-datetime.R
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@@ -233,6 +236,68 @@ register_bindings_datetime <- function() {
                                        tz = "UTC") {
     call_binding("make_datetime", year, month, day, hour, min, sec, tz)
   })
+  register_binding("difftime", function(time1,
+                                        time2,
+                                        tz,
+                                        units = "secs") {
+    if (units != "secs") {
+      abort("`difftime()` with units other than `secs` not supported in Arrow")
+    }
+
+    if (!missing(tz)) {
+      warn("`tz` argument is not supported in Arrow, so it will be ignored")
+    }
+
+    # cast to timestamp if time1 and time2 are not dates or timpestamp 
expressions
+    # (the subtraction of which would output a `duration`)
+    if (!(inherits(time1, "Expression") &&
+          time1$type_id() %in% Type[c("TIMESTAMP", "DATE32", "DATE64")])) {
+      time1 <- build_expr("cast", time1, options = cast_options(to_type = 
timestamp(timezone = "UTC")))
+    }
+
+    if (!(inherits(time2, "Expression") &&
+          time2$type_id() %in% Type[c("TIMESTAMP", "DATE32", "DATE64")])) {
+      time2 <- build_expr("cast", time2, options = cast_options(to_type = 
timestamp(timezone = "UTC")))
+    }

Review comment:
       For what it's worth the behavior you've run into here should probably 
have a jira + be cleaned up. But I'll leave it up to you as to how you want to 
work around that here (with `is.instant` + other catches or the approach you 
have already)




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