AlenkaF commented on code in PR #46591: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/46591#discussion_r2115254860
########## docs/source/python/install.rst: ########## @@ -98,6 +98,21 @@ a custom path to the database from Python: >>> import pyarrow as pa >>> pa.set_timezone_db_path("custom_path") +You may encounter problems writing datetime data to an ORC file if you install +pyarrow with pip. One possible solution to fix this problem: + + 1. Install tzdata with ``pip install tzdata`` + 2. Set the environment variable ``TZDIR`` = ``path\to\.venv\Lib\site-packages\tzdata\`` + +You can find where ``tzdata`` is installed with the following python +commands: Review Comment: ```suggestion command: ``` -- 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