Sarah Gilmore created ARROW-14104:
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Summary: Reading Lists of Timestamps from parquet files in Arrow
5.0.0 fails to preserve the TimeZone - unlike in Arrow 4.0.0
Key: ARROW-14104
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-14104
Project: Apache Arrow
Issue Type: Bug
Components: C++, Parquet, Python
Affects Versions: 5.0.0
Reporter: Sarah Gilmore
In Arrow 4.0.0 it is possible to round-trip the TimeZone property of
List<Timestamp> columns to and from parquet files:
{code:java}
>>> import pyarrow as pa
>>> import pyarrow.parquet as pq
>>> column = pa.array([[datetime.datetime(2023, 9, 23, 11)]],
>>> pa.list_(pa.timestamp('us', 'America/New_York'));
>>> t = pa.Table.from_arrays([column], name=['TimestampColumn']);
>>> pq.write_table(t, "example.parq");
>>> t2 = pq.read_table("example.parq");
>>> t2
pyarrow.Table
Dates: list<item: timestamp[us, tz=America/Denver]>
child 0, item: timestamp[us, tz=America/Denver]
{code}
However, if you read the same parquet file in pyarrow 5.0.0, the TimeZone is
set to UTC:
{code:java}
>>> t3 = pq.read_table("example.parq");
>>> t3
pyarrow.Table
Dates: list<item: timestamp[us, tz=UTC]>
child 0, item: timestamp[us, tz=UTC]
{code}
I noticed that the TimeZone is preserved in Arrow 5.0 when reading non-nested
timestamp columns.
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