[
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9781?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=17135169#comment-17135169
]
fml2 commented on KAFKA-9781:
-----------------------------
I've created [https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/8869] for this.
> TimestampConverter / Allow to specify a time zone when converting unix epoch
> to string
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: KAFKA-9781
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9781
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Wish
> Components: KafkaConnect
> Reporter: fml2
> Priority: Major
>
> TimestampConverter can convert a unix epoch value (long; number of
> milliseconds since Jan 01 1970 00:00 GMT) to string. However, when doing such
> conversion, the string result depends on the time zone used.
> TimestampConverter uses UTC (i.e. GMT) for the conversion and does not allow
> to change it. But I would need this in order to get the date/time
> representation in my local time zone.
> So I propose to introduce another config parameter (optional) for
> "target.type=string": *timeZone* (use java name as the value for the
> parameter). If no time zone is specified, UTC should be used, so that the
> change is backwards compatible.
--
This message was sent by Atlassian Jira
(v8.3.4#803005)
