different timestamp formats

[ManuelKraft]

Hi,

client = ohsome.OhsomeClient()
response = client.elements.geometry.post(time = "2008-01-01/2023-01-01/P1Y", ......)

---> you get a geodataframe with timestamps in the format "timestamp"

client = ohsome.OhsomeClient()
request = client.elements.count.groupByBoundary.post(time = "2008-01-01/2023-01-01/P1Y", .......)

---> you get a dataframe with timestamps in the format "timestamptz"

Would be nice if the format in 1) is also timestamptz.

Kind Regards,
Manuel

[SlowMo24]

Hi Manuel, thanks for reporting. we will have a look but feel free to open a pull request if this is a pressing problem for you.

[SlowMo24]

we should always return what the API provides, preferrably without timezone. Therefore, check what the API returns for these two calls.

[SlowMo24]

ok looking at the docu helps: https://docs.ohsome.org/ohsome-api/v1/time.html

we should ALWAYS return timestamps without timezone because thats all the api privides

[redfrexx]

The ohsome API does not return a timestamp with timezone, but implicitly it is always UTC. So we could also return a timestamp with the UTC timezone so users know this right away?

[SlowMo24]

no timestamps with timezones are messi and harder to handle, rather not put a timezone and know that its UTC

[SlowMo24]

see also GIScience/ohsome-api#318