Github user twalthr commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1322#issuecomment-153395500
I also also thought about that but I'm pretty sure that this introduces
issues difficult to debug. I think the most important thing is that the
conversion (from string to date and back) is always constant. Internally date
is always UTC anyway. Introducing a `.convert()` function for that might be
better. My goal was primarily to have this data type in the Table API.
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