[SPARK-29636] Can't parse '11:00 BST' or '2000-10-19 10:23:54+01' signatures to timestamp

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dylan Guedes
• Created: 29/Oct/19 10:05
• Updated: 05/Nov/19 06:20

Description

Currently, Spark can't parse a string such as '11:00 BST' or '2000-10-19 10:23:54+01' to timestamp:

spark-sql> select cast ('11:00 BST' as timestamp);
NULL
Time taken: 2.248 seconds, Fetched 1 row(s)