So eventually UDFs need to be modified to operate on TIMESTAMP data type ! Can we partition a table based on TIMESTAMP ? We should because it is really important for users in many cases.
Shyam --- On Thu, 2/12/09, Zheng Shao <zsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Zheng Shao <zsh...@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: Server time zone ! > To: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org, shyam_sar...@yahoo.com > Date: Thursday, February 12, 2009, 2:31 PM > Not yet. I think JVM take the environment variable TZ for > that purpose for > all java-related functions. > > In build-common.xml you should find the following: > <env key="TZ" > value="US/Pacific"/> > > This makes sure all current UDFs related to time/date are > using the > US/Pacific time zone. (Note: all these UDFs are operating > on String and > Integer types right now) > > Zheng > > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Shyam Sarkar > <shyam_sar...@yahoo.com>wrote: > > > Is there any 'Server's time zone' > implementation inside Hive? For proper > > implementation of TIMESTAMP data type, this is > necessay to translate from > > stored string type. I am focusing on MySQL 6.0 (with > limited properties) for > > TIMESTAMP. > > > > http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/timestamp.html > > > > Thanks, > > Shyam > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Yours, > Zheng
