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Jacques Nadeau commented on ARROW-413: -------------------------------------- We found it useful in java land as many of the prebuilt libraries use this construct. It makes doing date math much less work. Example: org.joda.time.LocalDate and the joda-derived JDK8+ java.time.LocalDate > DATE type is not specified clearly > ---------------------------------- > > Key: ARROW-413 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-413 > Project: Apache Arrow > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Format > Affects Versions: 0.1.0 > Reporter: Uwe L. Korn > > Currently the DATE type is not specified anywhere and needs to be documented. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)