sm-Fifteen commented on issue #36558: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/36558#issuecomment-1799403344
@MarcoGorelli: What would be the difference between setting a column to have `tz='+02:00'` compared to the completely valid `tz='Etc/GMT+2'` in this context? Both would have the same effect, it's just that IANA doesn't have zones for sub-hour precision offsets in the few cases where that's needed. I get that it's preferable that users know the reference timezone they're working with for things like DST policy reasons, and that the internal representation will be UTC regardless of what the TZ specifier is, but restricting it like this (for admittedly fair "footgun" reasons) seems like the wrong solution, here. -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
