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ASF GitHub Bot updated ARROW-5888:
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Labels: parquet pull-request-available (was: parquet)
> [Python][C++] Add metadata to store Arrow time zones in Parquet file metadata
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>
> Key: ARROW-5888
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-5888
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++, Python
> Reporter: Florian Jetter
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: parquet, pull-request-available
> Fix For: 0.15.0
>
>
> The timezone is not roundtrip safe for timezones other than UTC when storing
> to parquet. Expected behavior would be that the timezone is properly
> reconstructed
> {code:python}
> schema = pa.schema(
> [
> pa.field("no_tz", pa.timestamp('us')),
> pa.field("no_tz", pa.timestamp('us', tz="UTC")),
> pa.field("no_tz", pa.timestamp('us', tz="Europe/Berlin")),
> ]
> )
> buf = pa.BufferOutputStream()
> pq.write_metadata(
> schema,
> buf,
> coerce_timestamps="us"
> )
> pq_bytes = buf.getvalue().to_pybytes()
> reader = pa.BufferReader(pq_bytes)
> parquet_file = pq.ParquetFile(reader)
> parquet_file.schema.to_arrow_schema()
> # Output:
> # no_tz: timestamp[us]
> # utc: timestamp[us, tz=UTC]
> # europe: timestamp[us, tz=UTC]
> {code}
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