Oops, just saw http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/avro-dev/201905.mbox/browser, I'll follow that thread for more info about this.
* • **Tim Swast* * • *Software Friendliness Engineer * • *Google Cloud Developer Relations * • *Seattle, WA, USA *From: *Tim Swast <[email protected]> *Date: *Wed, May 8, 2019 at 2:26 PM *To: * <[email protected]> I do not see a type for representing naive / civil time / explicitly no > timezone timestamps in Avro files. > > BigQuery has this functionality through the DATETIME data type. Currently, > when BigQuery exports to Avro, they encode the value as an RFC 3339 string, > but without timezone information (e.g. "1970-01-01T00:00:00") and call the > logical type / SQL type "datetime", but this behavior isn't currently > documented. > > I'd like for BigQuery to use a community standard for datetime > (timezoneless timestamps), so it'd be great to get some consensus on how it > should do this. > > Related work: Parquet uses timestamp logical type, but with > "isAdjustedToUTC" parameter for this use case > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PARQUET-1545 >
