ParseTimestampStrptime currently ignores the timezone information. So timestamps are read as if they were all in UTC. This can be unexpected. See discussion for details.
It would be useful to either capture timezone information or convert timestamp to UTC when parsing it.

Reporter: Rok Mihevc / @rok
Assignee: David Li / @lidavidm
Watchers: Rok Mihevc / @rok

Related issues:

• [C++] Unable to parse strings into timestamps (fixes)
• [C++] Allow timestamp parser to parse offset strings (fixes)
• [C++][Doc] Document that the strptime kernel ignores %Z (relates to)
• [C++] Allow timestamp parser to parse offset strings (relates to)
• [C++][CSV] Timestamp parsing should accept any valid ISO 8601 without requiring custom parse strings (is related to)
• [R] Update strptime bindings to use tz (is depended upon by)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #11358

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-12820. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}