[KAFKA-9781] TimestampConverter / Allow to specify a time zone when converting unix epoch to string

• Type: Wish
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: connect
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: fml2
• Created: 28/Mar/20 09:41
• Updated: 14/Nov/20 10:37

Description

TimestampConverter can convert a unix epoch value (long; number of milliseconds since Jan 01 1970 00:00 GMT) to string. However, when doing such conversion, the string result depends on the time zone used.

TimestampConverter uses UTC (i.e. GMT) for the conversion and does not allow to change it. But I would need this in order to get the date/time representation in my local time zone.

So I propose to introduce another config parameter (optional) for "target.type=string": timeZone (use java name as the value for the parameter). If no time zone is specified, UTC should be used, so that the change is backwards compatible.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8869