[jira] [Created] (ARROW-9963) [Python] Recognize datetime.timezone.utc as UTC on conversion python->pyarrow

["Joris Van den Bossche (Jira)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Joris Van den Bossche created ARROW-9963:
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             Summary: [Python] Recognize datetime.timezone.utc as UTC on conversion python->pyarrow
                 Key: ARROW-9963
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-9963
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Python
            Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche


Related to ARROW-5248, but specifically for the stdlib {{datetime.timezone.utc}}, I think it would be nice to "recognize" this as UTC. Currently it is converted to "+00:00", while for pytz this is not the case:

{code}
from datetime import datetime, timezone
import pytz

print(pa.array([datetime.now(timezone.utc)]).type)
print(pa.array([datetime.now(pytz.utc)]).type)
{code}

gives

{code}
timestamp[us, tz=+00:00]
timestamp[us, tz=UTC]
{code}



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