Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-14448:
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Summary: [Python] Update pyarrow.array() docstring note on
timestamp (timezone) conversion
Key: ARROW-14448
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14448
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: Python
Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche
The current {{pa.array(..)}} docstring has the following note:
bq. Localized timestamps will currently be returned as UTC (pandas’s native
representation). Timezone-naive data will be implicitly interpreted as UTC.
This is IMO quite confusing. While _technically_ somewhat correct (we do store
UTC values under the hood for timezone aware data, and values "as if" in UTC
for timezone naive data), it's not what the user actually gets returned. The
type of the returned array does preserve the timezone if possible, or will have
no timezone (also no UTC) when converted from naive timestamps.
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