sm-Fifteen commented on issue #36558: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/36558#issuecomment-1799482518
> > it's just that IANA doesn't have zones for sub-hour precision offsets in the few cases where that's needed > > could you clarify when this is needed please? According to [Time and Date](https://www.timeanddate.com/time/time-zones-interesting.html), Australia/Adelaide, Asia/Calcutta (India) and America/St_Johns (Newfoundland, Canada), among others, have half-hour offsets from UTC, and their normal time zone reflects that, but they can't be represented at whole hour offsets with Etc zones from tzdb. -- 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
