Karen Coppage created HIVE-21094: ------------------------------------ Summary: Store TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE in UTC instead of writer's time zone Key: HIVE-21094 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-21094 Project: Hive Issue Type: Improvement Components: Hive Reporter: Karen Coppage Assignee: Karen Coppage
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE (aka TIMESTAMPTZ) is stored in writer's local time, and the writer's zone is stored with it. When reading, the timestamp in reader local time + reader zone is displayed. This is misleading for the user, since it looks like all the data was written in the reader's time zone. TIMESTAMPTZ should be stored in UTC time and be displayed in reader local time (as it was before) but without the reader's time zone. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)