Spark: queries with datetime and time zones
I operate from the Netherlands and that makes my time zone Central European Summer Time (CEST). The data I handle is usually stored in UTC time. Whenever I need to crunch some data with Spark I struggle to do the right date conversion, especially around summer or winter time (do I need to add 1 or 2 hours?). In this blog, I’ll show how to handle these time zones properly in PySpark.