Yes there will be Timezone support. We shall follow MySQL 6.0 TIMESTAMP specification::
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/6.0/en/timestamp.html Thanks, shyam_sar...@yahoo.com --- On Sun, 3/8/09, Tim Hawkins <tim.hawk...@bejant.com> wrote: > From: Tim Hawkins <tim.hawk...@bejant.com> > Subject: Re: Please check grammar for TIMESTAMP > To: hive-dev@hadoop.apache.org > Date: Sunday, March 8, 2009, 7:22 AM > Is there going to be any Timezone Support?, ie will the > time-stamp be stored in a recognised standard such as UTC > regardless of the actual time submitted, given that > hive/hadoop tend to be used for log processing and reporting > in many use cases, understanding the normalising time-zone > details may be nessacary, especially where you may have data > sourced from multiple time zones. > > It may be worth considering this issue now as retrofitting > it later may cause problems. > > On 8 Mar 2009, at 14:15, Shyam Sarkar wrote: > > > Hi Zheng and others, > > > > Could you please check Hive.g grammar changes for > TIMESTAMP (See the comments with // Change by Shyam)? > > Please review and let me know your feedback. I shall > write a short design doc later for review after these short > exchanges. > > > > Thanks, > > shyam_sar...@yahoo.com > > > >
