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Ryan Blue updated HIVE-12195:
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    Description: 
Using an unknown time zone with the {{from_utc_timestamp}} or 
{{to_utc_timetamp}} methods returns the time un-adjusted instead of throwing an 
error:

{code}
hive> select from_utc_timestamp('2015-04-11 12:24:34.535', 'panda');
OK
2015-04-11 12:24:34.535
{code}

This should be an error because users may attempt to adjust to valid but 
unknown zones, like PDT or MDT. This would produce incorrect results with no 
warning or error.

*Update*: A good work-around is to add a table of known zones that maps to 
offset zone identifiers, like {{GMT-07:00}}. The table is small enough to 
always be a broadcast join and results can be filtered (e.g. {{offset_zone IS 
NOT NULL}}) so that only valid zones are passed to {{from_utc_timestamp}}.

  was:
Using an unknown time zone with the {{from_utc_timestamp}} or 
{{to_utc_timetamp}} methods returns the time un-adjusted instead of throwing an 
error:

{code}
hive> select from_utc_timestamp('2015-04-11 12:24:34.535', 'panda');
OK
2015-04-11 12:24:34.535
{code}

This should be an error because users may attempt to adjust to valid but 
unknown zones, like PDT or MDT. This would produce incorrect results with no 
warning or error.


> Unknown zones should cause an error instead of silently failing
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-12195
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-12195
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: Hive
>            Reporter: Ryan Blue
>            Assignee: Shinichi Yamashita
>         Attachments: HIVE-12195.1.patch, HIVE-12195.2.patch, 
> HIVE-12195.3.patch, HIVE-12195.4.patch
>
>
> Using an unknown time zone with the {{from_utc_timestamp}} or 
> {{to_utc_timetamp}} methods returns the time un-adjusted instead of throwing 
> an error:
> {code}
> hive> select from_utc_timestamp('2015-04-11 12:24:34.535', 'panda');
> OK
> 2015-04-11 12:24:34.535
> {code}
> This should be an error because users may attempt to adjust to valid but 
> unknown zones, like PDT or MDT. This would produce incorrect results with no 
> warning or error.
> *Update*: A good work-around is to add a table of known zones that maps to 
> offset zone identifiers, like {{GMT-07:00}}. The table is small enough to 
> always be a broadcast join and results can be filtered (e.g. {{offset_zone IS 
> NOT NULL}}) so that only valid zones are passed to {{from_utc_timestamp}}.



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