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[jira] [Commented] (AVRO-739) Add Date/Time data types

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-739?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13474263#comment-13474263 ] 

John A. De Goes commented on AVRO-739:
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Adopting UTC milliseconds as the date/time format is fundamentally wrong and will render the type useless for any serious application. ISO8601 is the standard format for date/time. It preserves the critical notion of timezone and daylight savings time, and of course lets you express time in UTC as well if that's what you want. The binary encoding is only slightly bulkier than UTC milliseconds.
                
> Add Date/Time data types
> ------------------------
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>                 Key: AVRO-739
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AVRO-739
>             Project: Avro
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: spec
>            Reporter: Jeff Hammerbacher
>


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