[ARROW-10004] [Python] Consider to raise or normalize if a timezone aware datetime.time object is encountered during conversion

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Python
• Labels: python-conversion
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/26028
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Krisztian Szucs
• Created: 14/Sep/20 20:33
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:10

Description

Python datetime.time objects may have timezone information attached, but since the time types (type32 and type64) don't have that property in arrow we simply ignore it.

We should either raise an error or normalize to UTC.

Issue Links

• relates to: ARROW-9992 [C++][Python] Refactor python to arrow conversions based on a reusable conversion API