Date is confusing with a timezone (UTC or otherwise) and the doco makes no such suggestion. The Parquet datatypes documentation is pretty clear that there is a

Date is confusing with a timezone (UTC or otherwise) and the doco makes no such suggestion. The Parquet datatypes documentation is pretty clear that there is a flag isAdjustedToUTC to define if the timestamp should be interpreted as having Instant semantics or Local semantics. https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/LogicalTypes.md#timestamp https://github.com/apache/parquet-format/blob/master/Logical... Still no option to include a TZ offset in the data (so the same datum can be interpreted with both Local and Instant semantics) but not bad really.