jorisvandenbossche commented on issue #39489: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/39489#issuecomment-1884485534
> does this means the legacy file cannot have any timezone? Yes, reading such a legacy file would essentially never give you a timezone (but that was a generic limitation of the Parquet spec, not something Arrow could do anything about). Essentially back then the choice needed to be made between "always returning no timezone" (and potentially losing some information, if the original data was tz-aware) or "always returning with timezone" (and potentially adding _wrong_ information, if the original data was not in UTC). And so we made what we thought to be the "safest" choice that losing some information is better than adding wrong information. -- 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
