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Russell Jurney commented on PIG-1314:
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Hmmm not sure if I should use durations or periods, or both. See
http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/apidocs/org/joda/time/Period.html
> Add DateTime Support to Pig
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> Key: PIG-1314
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIG-1314
> Project: Pig
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: data
> Affects Versions: 0.7.0
> Reporter: Russell Jurney
> Fix For: 0.8.0
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> Original Estimate: 672h
> Remaining Estimate: 672h
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> Hadoop/Pig are primarily used to parse log data, and most logs have a
> timestamp component. Therefore Pig should support dates as a primitive.
> Can someone familiar with adding types to pig comment on how hard this is?
> We're looking at doing this, rather than use UDFs. Is this a patch that
> would be accepted?
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