Github user aljoscha commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/879#issuecomment-117987956
But if you do any sort of time windowing, you have to get the time for each
record at some point. So in my opinion it does not matter where we do it so we
might as well do it in the source.
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