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Michael Sterling commented on ARROW-16054:
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It's very possible I'm missing something but would it be possible to enable the
setting a timezone-path for Python as well even if users have to figure out how
to get the timezone database in the correct format?
> [Python] Use tzdata timezone database on Windows
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> Key: ARROW-16054
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-16054
> Project: Apache Arrow
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: C++, Python
> Affects Versions: 7.0.0
> Reporter: Will Jones
> Priority: Major
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> In ARROW-13168, we enabled setting the path of the text-based database engine
> at runtime. This allowed R to use the tzdb package for the timezone database,
> since it uses the text format.
> However, it doesn't seem like tzdata Python package ships that text format.
> They do have [a "compact" text
> format|https://github.com/python/tzdata/blob/master/src/tzdata/zoneinfo/tzdata.zi],
> which _might_ be compatible with our vendored date library. Otherwise, we'd
> likely have to wait for binary format support in
> https://github.com/HowardHinnant/date/issues/564
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