alamb opened a new issue, #9337: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/9337
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.** In DataFusion we have occasions where we have a chrono `NiaveDateTime` or `DateTime` and would like to create the corresponding `Timestamp` value (e.g. i64) This came up recently in https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19733/changes#r2742968186\\ Basically we want the API ```rust fn date_to_scalar(date: NaiveDate, target_type: &DataType) -> Option<ScalarValue> { ``` We have `Date32Type::from_naive_date(date)` but couldn't find the equivalent of Timestamp types as well I was hoping for something like `TimestampSecondType::from_datetime` or something but all I could find was https://docs.rs/arrow/latest/arrow/array/types/struct.TimestampSecondType.html and https://docs.rs/arrow/latest/arrow/datatypes/trait.ArrowTimestampType.html Instead we went with our own date/time parsing (see https://github.com/apache/datafusion/pull/19733) **Describe the solution you'd like** Add an API so downstream crates can avoid having to do date/time/timestamp arithmetic to convert from a NiaveDate (or document the conversion better) **Describe alternatives you've considered** **Additional context** <!-- Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request 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: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
