velvia commented on issue #597: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/597#issuecomment-885773327
@rok > Offsets are much more practical indeed but don't cover things like daylight savings changes and human readable timezones (e.g. EST, PST, CET). But I don't know what your scope is and offsets might be enough. The scope is an internal, compact representation to 1) facilitate easy and fast computation, 2) minimize memory and storage costs, 3) minimize network serialization overhead in Ballista. It should be easily convertible to string representation. It is true that numeric offsets would lose some information, perhaps there are better representations out there, like an enum from chronos or something. At the same time, this is also a deep rabbit hole and trying to be completely accurate might also not be practical.... -- 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]
