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[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-9781) TimestampConverter / Allow to specify a time zone when converting unix epoch to string

Al created KAFKA-9781:
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             Summary: TimestampConverter / Allow to specify a time zone when converting unix epoch to string
                 Key: KAFKA-9781
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-9781
             Project: Kafka
          Issue Type: Wish
          Components: KafkaConnect
            Reporter: Al


TimestampConverter can convert a unix epoch value (long; number of milliseconds since Jan 01 1970 00:00 GMT) to string. However, when doing such conversion, the string result depends on the time zone used.

TimestampConverter uses UTC (i.e. GMT) for the conversion and does not allow to change it. But I would need this in order to get the date/time representation in my local time zone.

So I propose to introduce another config parameter (optional) for "target.type=string": *timeZone* (use java name for that). If no time zone is specified, UTC should be used.



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