GitHub user davies opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1601
[SPARK-2674] [SQL] [PySpark] support datetime type for SchemaRDD Datetime and time in Python will be converted into java.util.Calendar after serialization, it will be converted into java.sql.Timestamp during inferSchema(). In javaToPython(), Timestamp will be converted into Calendar, then be converted into datetime in Python after pickling. You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/davies/spark date Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/1601.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #1601 ---- commit 96db384f9eba821cad803ee80e3e00e1dea50085 Author: Davies Liu <davies....@gmail.com> Date: 2014-07-26T06:59:39Z support datetime type for SchemaRDD ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---