Re: Piggybank date time functions

2012-12-11 Thread Jonathan Coveney
I did not implement those UDF's... I imagine the reason for rigorously using UTC instead of system time is because that can introduce subtle bugs where your servers have a different time than your client and it can be hard to debug, etc. It would be pretty easy to add support for timezone to those

Re: Piggybank date time functions

2012-12-10 Thread Ramakrishna Nalam
Soliciting suggestions, really think there was some strong reason for using UTC in all places so consistently! The classes I'm referring to are mainly in the org/apache/pig/piggybank/evaluation/datetime/ package. Regards, Rama. On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Ramakrishna Nalam wrote: > > Hi,