h-vetinari commented on issue #48874:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/48874#issuecomment-3782854740

   > The environment variable `ARROW_TIMEZONE_DATABASE` should be set to 
somewhere where the timezone database resides, is that not the case in your 
test script?
   
   We've started running test for libarrow since v18 (though 
https://github.com/conda-forge/arrow-cpp-feedstock/pull/1058 was ~1.5yrs in the 
making), without setting `ARROW_TIMEZONE_DATABASE`, and that ran fine before 
v22 (still works fine on unix even for v22).
   
   Generally, I'm not very keen on the whole "needs env var to run tests", 
because it ends up testing a very different thing from what ends up happening 
in user installs. Along the same lines, I removed
   
https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/b29b786ed3d770a9d9765ee6b1ed221e887e9093/python/pyarrow/tests/conftest.py#L63-L67
   
   see https://github.com/conda-forge/pyarrow-feedstock/pull/167 etc.


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