Is there a way to have the UDF or drill itself handle this? This seems like
an odd issue to push to the user and/or the cluster administrator.  (I just
posted my own issue on this in the user list, not seeing this thread)

On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Hao Zhu <[email protected]> wrote:

> Per my test, setting drill-override.conf like below can not work.
> It will add another configuration "drill.exec.user.timezone" which does not
> take effect.
> Adding
> -Duser.timezone=UTC to DRILL_JAVA_OPTS in drill-env.sh works.
>
>
> drill.exec: {
>   cluster-id: “xyz",
>   zk.connect: “abc:5181",
>   *user.timezone: "UTC"*
> }
>
> > select * from sys.options where name like '%timezone%';
>
> +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
> |    name    |    kind    |    type    |  num_val   | string_val |
>  bool_val  | float_val  |
>
> +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
> | drill.exec.user.timezone | STRING     | BOOT       | null       | "UTC"
>    | null       | null       |
> | user.timezone | STRING     | BOOT       | null       | "America/New_York"
> | null       | null       |
>
> +------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
>
> Thanks,
> Hao
>
> On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Andries Engelbrecht <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Would this be the right syntax for drill-override.conf for the user
> > timezone?
> >
> > drill.exec: {
> >   cluster-id: “xyz",
> >   zk.connect: “abc:5181",
> >   user.timezone: "UTC"
> > }
> >
> > —Andries
> >
> >
> > On Mar 15, 2015, at 8:19 PM, Jacques Nadeau <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > BOOT means it comes from drill-override.conf (or the defaults) and
> cannot
> > > be set via ALTER [SYSTEM|SESSION].  Note that -D works for all options
> > that
> > > are in drill-override.conf but the better habit is to use the conf
> file.
> > >
> > > On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 6:28 PM, Andries Engelbrecht <
> > > [email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Under the sys.options I noticed there is a user.timezone option.
> > >> Unfortunately it seems to be a BOOT option, and also I was not able to
> > set
> > >> it with alter system or session.
> > >>
> > >> Ideally it will be best for this to be runtime option that can be set
> at
> > >> session level, so different users can use a different timezone. Filed
> > for
> > >> an enhancement, but see if you can get the sys option to work.
> > >>
> > >> --Andries
> > >>
> > >> On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Vince Gonzalez <
> > [email protected]
> > >>>
> > >> wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> In case anyone runs into this, the turned out to be trivial. Add
> > >>> -Duser.timezone=UTC to DRILL_JAVA_OPTS in drill-env.sh.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Vince Gonzalez <
> > >> [email protected]>
> > >>> wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>> I've got a query that throws the following exception:
> > >>>>
> > >>>> 0: jdbc:drill:zk=node1:5181,node2:5181,node3:> select
> > >>>> SpotPrice,`Timestamp` from dfs.tmp.`spot_prices` order by
> `Timestamp`;
> > >>>> +------------+------------+
> > >>>> | SpotPrice  | Timestamp  |
> > >>>> +------------+------------+
> > >>>> Query failed: Query failed: *Failure while running fragment., Cannot
> > >>>> parse "2015-03-08 02:58:51": Illegal instant due to time zone offset
> > >>>> transition (America/New_York)* [
> de543f7b-2a65-472b-a62c-59441d8d9daa
> > >> on
> > >>>> node2:31010 ]
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I guess due to daylight savings, 02:58:51 doesn't exist (in
> > >>>> America/New_York we go from 2am to 3am when we "spring ahead").
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I see a user.timezone option of type "BOOT". Does changing this to
> UTC
> > >>>> work around this kind of DST related issue? If so, how do I set
> this?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> --vince
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>
> > >> Andries Engelbrecht
> > >>
> > >> Solution Architect
> > >>
> > >> [email protected]
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> mapr.com <http://www.mapr.com/>
> > >>
> >
> >
>

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