GH-37328: [Python] Add a function to download and extract timezone database on Windows #38179
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@jorisvandenbossche forgot about this PR a bit. It would be good to have it in 15.0.0 =) |
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Co-authored-by: Joris Van den Bossche <[email protected]>
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Rationale for this change
There is a section in the Arrow C++ documentation with the instructions on how to download and extract text version of the IANA timezone database and on Windows. We should provide a function in PyArrow that a user would call to download and extract the timezone database from Python.
What changes are included in this PR?
Function
download_tzdata_on_windows()added to python/pyarrow/util.py that downloads and extracts timezone database to a standard location in%USERPROFILE%\Downloads\tzdataon Widnows.Are these changes tested?
Yes.
Are there any user-facing changes?
No.