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Julian Hyde commented on ARROW-637:
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Looks good. Except that you should support offsets as well as timezone names.
That probably just means changing the comment at this point.
> [Format] Add time zone metadata to Timestamp type
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> Key: ARROW-637
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-637
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Format
> Reporter: Wes McKinney
> Assignee: Wes McKinney
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> As a metadata-only convenience, it would be useful to have an optional Olson
> time zone name in the {{Timestamp}} flatbuffers type:
> https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/master/format/Message.fbs#L94
> Null or length-0 string would indicate that the data has no time zone (UTC)
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