Hi Kafka devs, I created KIP-79 to allow consumer to precisely query the offsets based on timestamp.
In short we propose to : 1. add a ListOffsetRequest/ListOffsetResponse v1, and 2. add an offsetForTime() method in new consumer. The KIP wiki is the following: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=65868090 Comments are welcome. Thanks, Jiangjie (Becket) Qin