jorisvandenbossche commented on pull request #10457: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10457#issuecomment-858491335
Another question: is the `locate_zone` configurable in some way to give some hints where to find the tz database? The database is not always available on the system (as you noticed for windows). But depending on the application / binding language, it might already be available elsewhere. For example, in recent Python versions, there is now support for this in the standard library, automatically using the `tzdata` package if there is no system database. I am wondering if pyarrow should be able to instruct the kernel where to look for the database (https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0615/#search-path-configuration in python). Or does the vendored `date.h` also include functionalities to automatically download the data if not available on the system? -- 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. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
