pitrou commented on a change in pull request #10997:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/10997#discussion_r695869008
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File path: format/Schema.fbs
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@@ -214,58 +214,106 @@ table Time {
bitWidth: int = 32;
}
-/// Time elapsed from the Unix epoch, 00:00:00.000 on 1 January 1970, excluding
-/// leap seconds, as a 64-bit integer. Note that UNIX time does not include
-/// leap seconds.
+/// Timestamp is a 64-bit signed integer representing an elapsed time since a
+/// fixed epoch, stored in either of four units: seconds, milliseconds,
+/// microseconds or nanoseconds, and interpretable in a particular timezone.
Review comment:
I will commit an alternative wording:
> Timestamp is a 64-bit signed integer representing an elapsed time since a
fixed epoch, stored in either of four units: seconds, milliseconds,
microseconds or nanoseconds, and is optionally annotated with a timezone.
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