Description
When /usr/share/zoneinfo is unavailable and TZDIR env is unset, creating C++ ORC reader will crash on Windows. We need to better deal with this case. See context from the Apache Arrow community: https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/36026 and https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/40633
We could perhaps do following things:
- Make sure it does not crash when TZDB is missing (on Windows). The prerequisite is to enable running C++ unit tests on Windows.
- More TZDB search locations. (e.g. $CONDA_PREFIX/usr/share/zoneinfo)
- Do not eagerly reading TZDB when timestamp types are not required.
- Add a runtime config to set TZDB location.
- Ship TZDB with the ORC library while building on Windows?
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