Github user chenghao-intel commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/2344#discussion_r17704012
  
    --- Diff: 
sql/catalyst/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/expressions/Cast.scala
 ---
    @@ -140,6 +147,39 @@ case class Cast(child: Expression, dataType: DataType) 
extends UnaryExpression {
         }
       }
     
    +  // Converts Timestamp to string according to Hive TimestampWritable 
convention
    +  private[this] def timestampToDateString(ts: Timestamp): String = {
    +    Cast.threadLocalDateFormat.get.format(ts)
    +  }
    +
    +  // DateConverter
    +  private[this] def castToDate: Any => Any = child.dataType match {
    --- End diff --
    
    We probably need to compare the date conversion with Hive, 
https://github.com/apache/hive/blob/branch-0.12/serde/src/java/org/apache/hadoop/hive/serde2/objectinspector/primitive/PrimitiveObjectInspectorUtils.java#L1032
    
    Particularly for `null` returns or throws exception.


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