kylebarron opened a new issue, #7173: URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/issues/7173
**Is your feature request related to a problem or challenge? Please describe what you are trying to do.** In pyo3-arrow, I'm [converting from Arrow scalars to Python objects](https://github.com/kylebarron/arro3/blob/d2eb765ddb88f47a33ad8ab487d2bc5aca7e597d/pyo3-arrow/src/scalar.rs#L196-L199). Prior to pyo3 0.23.4, pyo3 handled the object conversion by converting all time zones to a fixed offset, but as of pyo3 0.23.4, pyo3 [requires the `Tz` implementation to implement `IntoPyObject`](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/pull/4790). One way to fix this is to converting all time zones to a fixed offset manually, e.g. ```rs let dt: chrono::DateTime<arrow_array::timezone::Tz> = ...; dt.fixed_offset().into_py_any(py)? ``` But this loses timezone information. It would be ideal to convert all timezone information into the Python scalar. But TzInner is private: https://github.com/apache/arrow-rs/blob/a0c3186c55ac8ed3f6b8a15d1305548fd6305ebb/arrow-array/src/timezone.rs#L81-L85 So we have no way to access the underlying `chrono_tz::Tz` out of the `Tz`. **Describe the solution you'd like** Make `TzInner` public. **Describe alternatives you've considered** Always convert to a fixed offset, but this will lose any timezone information. **Additional context** -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: github-unsubscr...@arrow.apache.org.apache.org For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org
