spark-instrumented-optimizer/python
Takuya UESHIN 64817c423c [SPARK-22395][SQL][PYTHON] Fix the behavior of timestamp values for Pandas to respect session timezone
## What changes were proposed in this pull request?

When converting Pandas DataFrame/Series from/to Spark DataFrame using `toPandas()` or pandas udfs, timestamp values behave to respect Python system timezone instead of session timezone.

For example, let's say we use `"America/Los_Angeles"` as session timezone and have a timestamp value `"1970-01-01 00:00:01"` in the timezone. Btw, I'm in Japan so Python timezone would be `"Asia/Tokyo"`.

The timestamp value from current `toPandas()` will be the following:

```
>>> spark.conf.set("spark.sql.session.timeZone", "America/Los_Angeles")
>>> df = spark.createDataFrame([28801], "long").selectExpr("timestamp(value) as ts")
>>> df.show()
+-------------------+
|                 ts|
+-------------------+
|1970-01-01 00:00:01|
+-------------------+

>>> df.toPandas()
                   ts
0 1970-01-01 17:00:01
```

As you can see, the value becomes `"1970-01-01 17:00:01"` because it respects Python timezone.
As we discussed in #18664, we consider this behavior is a bug and the value should be `"1970-01-01 00:00:01"`.

## How was this patch tested?

Added tests and existing tests.

Author: Takuya UESHIN <ueshin@databricks.com>

Closes #19607 from ueshin/issues/SPARK-22395.
2017-11-28 16:45:22 +08:00
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docs [SPARK-21866][ML][PYSPARK] Adding spark image reader 2017-11-22 15:45:45 -08:00
lib [SPARK-21278][PYSPARK] Upgrade to Py4J 0.10.6 2017-07-05 16:33:23 -07:00
pyspark [SPARK-22395][SQL][PYTHON] Fix the behavior of timestamp values for Pandas to respect session timezone 2017-11-28 16:45:22 +08:00
test_support [SPARK-19610][SQL] Support parsing multiline CSV files 2017-02-28 13:34:33 -08:00
.gitignore [SPARK-3946] gitignore in /python includes wrong directory 2014-10-14 14:09:39 -07:00
MANIFEST.in [SPARK-18652][PYTHON] Include the example data and third-party licenses in pyspark package. 2016-12-07 06:09:27 +08:00
pylintrc [SPARK-13596][BUILD] Move misc top-level build files into appropriate subdirs 2016-03-07 14:48:02 -08:00
README.md [SPARK-21278][PYSPARK] Upgrade to Py4J 0.10.6 2017-07-05 16:33:23 -07:00
run-tests [SPARK-8583] [SPARK-5482] [BUILD] Refactor python/run-tests to integrate with dev/run-tests module system 2015-06-27 20:24:34 -07:00
run-tests.py [SPARK-14280][BUILD][WIP] Update change-version.sh and pom.xml to add Scala 2.12 profiles and enable 2.12 compilation 2017-09-01 19:21:21 +01:00
setup.cfg [SPARK-1267][SPARK-18129] Allow PySpark to be pip installed 2016-11-16 14:22:15 -08:00
setup.py [SPARK-22395][SQL][PYTHON] Fix the behavior of timestamp values for Pandas to respect session timezone 2017-11-28 16:45:22 +08:00

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