[SPARK-37705] Write session time zone in the Parquet file metadata so that rebase can use it instead of JVM timezone

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.2.1
• Component/s: SQL
• Assignee: Max Gekk
• Reporter: Max Gekk
• Created: 21/Dec/21 12:47
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 29/Dec/21 00:52

Description

We could write session time zone in the Parquet file that was used to write timestamps so we can use the same time zone to reconstruct the values instead of using JVM time zone (which could be different).

Issue Links

• links to: [Github] Pull Request #34973 (MaxGekk)
• links to: [Github] Pull Request #35042 (MaxGekk)