Major Description
If JDBC client is in TimeZone PST, and sets spark.sql.session.timeZone to PST, and sends a query "SELECT timestamp '2020-05-20 12:00:00'", and the JVM timezone of the Spark cluster is e.g. CET, then
- the timestamp literal in the query is interpreted as 12:00:00 PST, i.e. 21:00:00 CET
- but currently when it's returned, the timestamps are collected from the query with a collect() in https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/SparkExecuteStatementOperation.scala#L299, and then in the end Timestamps are turned into strings using a t.toString() in https://github.com/apache/spark/blob/master/sql/hive-thriftserver/v2.3/src/main/java/org/apache/hive/service/cli/ColumnValue.java#L138 This will use the Spark cluster TimeZone. That results in "21:00:00" returned to the JDBC application.
