[ARROW-13347] [C++][Compute] Add option to return null values for nonexistent and ambiguous times

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: C++
• Labels: timezone
• External issue URL: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/29022
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Rok Mihevc
• Created: 15/Jul/21 18:22
• Updated: 11/Jan/23 08:32

Description

ARROW-13033 Implements TzLocalize kernel and can handle ambiguous and nonexistent times by raising or shifting backwards or forwards to first valid local time.
However we might want to be able to return null in these cases.
We could implement new flags to do so:
compute::TemporalLocalizationOptions::Nonexistent::NONEXISTENT_IGNORE and compute::TemporalLocalizationOptions::Ambiguous::AMBIGUOUS_IGNORE