[SPARK-21940] Support timezone for timestamps in SparkR

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Incomplete
• Affects Version/s: 2.2.0
• Component/s: SparkR
• Labels: bulk-closed
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Hossein Falaki
• Created: 07/Sep/17 02:20
• Updated: 08/Oct/19 05:41
• Resolved: 08/Oct/19 05:41

Description

SparkR::createDataFrame() wipes timezone attribute from POSIXct and POSIXlt. See following example:

> x <- data.frame(x = c(Sys.time()))
> x
                    x
1 2017-09-06 19:17:16
> attr(x$x, "tzone") <- "Europe/Paris"
> x
                    x
1 2017-09-07 04:17:16
> collect(createDataFrame(x))
                    x
1 2017-09-06 19:17:16