At present there are (at least) 2 possible directions:

• support an origin option in the C++ code - ARROW-15798
• support it only in the R code (once we can do arithmetic with dates and durations) - ARROW-14947 or ARROW-11090

Reporter: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld / @dragosmg
Assignee: Dragoș Moldovan-Grünfeld / @dragosmg

Related issues:

• [R] Implement bindings for lubridate::as_date() and lubridate::as_datetime() (is fixed by)
• [R] Add binding for lubridate::duration() and/or as.difftime() (depends upon)
• [C++] Support temporal arithmetic ({time,date}{32,64}, timestamp, interval) (depends upon)
• [R][C++] Discussion: Plans for date casting from int to support an origin option? (depends upon)

_{Note: This issue was originally created as ARROW-15799. Please see the migration documentation for further details.}