Given a tz-naive timestamp, "localize" would interpret that timestamp as local in a given timezone, and return a tz-aware timestamp keeping the same "clock time" (the same year/month/day/hour/etc in the printed representation). Under the hood this converts the timestamp value from that timezone to UTC, since tz-aware timestamps are stored as UTC.

References: tz_localize in pandas, or force_tz in R's lubridate package

This will (eventually) also have to deal with ambiguous or non-existing times.

Reporter: Joris Van den Bossche / @jorisvandenbossche
Assignee: Rok Mihevc / @rok
Watchers: Rok Mihevc / @rok

Related issues:

• [C++] C++ array kernels framework and execution buildout (umbrella issue) (is a child of)
• [C++] Kernel to convert timestamp with timezone to wall time (relates to)

PRs and other links:

• GitHub Pull Request #10610

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-13033. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}