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Joris Van den Bossche reassigned ARROW-14448:
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Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
> [Python] Update pyarrow.array() docstring note on timestamp (timezone)
> conversion
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> 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
> Assignee: Joris Van den Bossche
> Priority: Major
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> 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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