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Joris Van den Bossche updated ARROW-14448:
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    Fix Version/s: 7.0.0
                       (was: 8.0.0)

> [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
>            Priority: Major
>              Labels: pull-request-available
>             Fix For: 7.0.0
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>          Time Spent: 40m
>  Remaining Estimate: 0h
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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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