[ORC-341] Add ability to use timestamp in UTC rather than local timezone.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Assignee: Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
• Reporter: Jesús Camacho Rodríguez
• Created: 14/Apr/18 11:30
• Updated: 27/Feb/24 22:23
• Resolved: 07/May/18 17:06

Description

Currently, time zone is hardcoded as the system default time zone and ORC applies displacement between timestamp values read/written based on time zone.

This issue aims at adding the option to pass the time zone as a parameter to the reader/writer.

Issue Links

• causes: HIVE-21069 Timestamp statistics in orc is wrong if read with useUTCTimestamp=true
• causes: ORC-550 Use default system time zone if it is not present in the file footer
• is related to: ORC-365 Only print min and max for timestamp stats once
• relates to: HIVE-12192 Hive should carry out timestamp computations in UTC
• relates to: HIVE-20007 Hive should carry out timestamp computations in UTC
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #249