jorisvandenbossche commented on a change in pull request #12240:
URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/12240#discussion_r791773567
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File path: r/tests/testthat/test-Array.R
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@@ -985,3 +985,14 @@ test_that("Array to C-interface", {
delete_arrow_schema(schema_ptr)
delete_arrow_array(array_ptr)
})
+
+test_that("Array coverts timestamps with missing timezone /assumed local tz
correctly", {
+ withr::with_envvar(c(TZ = "America/Chicago"), {
+ a <- as.POSIXct("1970-01-01 00:00:00")
+ attr(a, "tzone") <- Sys.getenv("TZ")
Review comment:
> but rather the UTC date-time corresponding to the _absolute value_
with the desired timezone label, which I think it would be terribly confusing.
You need to offset for the confusing display in Arrow. Assuming that is
fixed, would the result still be confusing?
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