What is the status of Date coding?

[Zijing Guo]

I have been searching around and saw the jira 
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-739 for this matter, but I don't 
have a better sense of what avro support for date time within the user 
document. What I trying to achieve is to code the date with timezone 
information (with iso8601) from the kafka producer side in python and all the 
downstream consumers are written in java can decode it properly. what is the 
best practice for this?
Thanks in advanceEdwin