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Joris Van den Bossche commented on ARROW-17398:
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I think I am referring to name overloading (although I am mostly just repeating
what I hear others say ;)). For example CST can be both China Standard Time as
Central Standard Time.
bq. You're right. But date.h docs do state that timezone names and
abbreviations can be parsed:
Interesting (though in the source code I don't directly find support for that),
so we will have to test in practice to see how much it supports it.
> [C++] Add support for %Z to strptime
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> Key: ARROW-17398
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-17398
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: R
> Reporter: Rok Mihevc
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: kernel
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> While lubridate does not support %Z flag for strptime Arrow could.
> Changes to C++ kernels might be required for support on all platforms, but
> that shouldn't block implementation as kStrptimeSupportsZone flag can be
> used, [see
> proposal|https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/13854#issuecomment-1212694663].
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