[a-hirota]

Description

With the default engine="cudf" and int96_timestamps=False, DataFrame.to_parquet writes timestamp columns with isAdjustedToUTC=false by passing .utc_timestamps(False). The chunked cudf.io.parquet.ParquetWriter cannot do this and always writes isAdjustedToUTC=true. So the same timezone-naive column gets a different Parquet logical type depending on which cuDF writer API is used:

import cudf
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
from cudf.io.parquet import ParquetWriter

df = cudf.DataFrame({"ts": cudf.Series([0, 1], dtype="datetime64[us]")})

df.to_parquet("single.parquet")
with ParquetWriter("chunked.parquet") as w:
    w.write_table(df)

print(pq.read_schema("single.parquet").field("ts").type)   # timestamp[us]
print(pq.read_schema("chunked.parquet").field("ts").type)  # timestamp[us, tz=UTC]

This matters when the output has to be written in chunks because the full table does not fit in GPU memory, but downstream readers need timezone-naive (wall-clock) timestamps.

libcudf's chunked builder already supports the option through parquet_writer_options_builder_base. This PR exposes it through pylibcudf and cuDF:

• pylibcudf: add ChunkedParquetWriterOptionsBuilder.utc_timestamps(bool) (.pyx/.pxd/.pyi), mirroring ParquetWriterOptionsBuilder.utc_timestamps.
• cudf: add utc_timestamps: bool = True to ParquetWriter. Passing False makes the UTC annotation match to_parquet. The option changes the timestamp annotation without changing the stored values. With store_schema=True, it also sets the timezone in the stored Arrow schema ("UTC" or none). As in libcudf, it also applies to duration columns written as Parquet TIME.

utc_timestamps=True preserves the existing chunked-writer default. Changing the default to False would change the timestamp semantics of files that existing callers write.

Tests: both new tests write two chunks of nullable timestamp[us] and check isAdjustedToUTC in the written file's logical type. The pylibcudf test covers True and False. The cudf test covers the default and False, and also checks the round-tripped values.

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• New Features
  • Added a utc_timestamps option to Parquet writing, enabled by default. It controls whether timestamps are marked as adjusted to UTC in Parquet metadata and, when an Arrow schema is stored, whether timestamps include a UTC timezone annotation. Timestamp values are not changed. Duration values written as unannotated INT64 are unaffected.

The chunked Parquet writer now accepts a UTC timestamp setting. ParquetWriter exposes the setting, defaults it to True, and passes it to the chunked writer options. Tests check timestamp and duration annotations and verify chunk round-trips.

Changes: Parquet UTC Timestamp Configuration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Chunked writer UTC option python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pxd, python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyi, python/pylibcudf/pylibcudf/io/parquet.pyx, python/pylibcudf/tests/io/test_parquet.py	The chunked writer options builder adds a chainable utc_timestamps method that forwards the setting. A test checks the output timestamp annotation for both boolean values.
ParquetWriter UTC option python/cudf/cudf/io/parquet.py, python/cudf/cudf/tests/input_output/test_parquet.py	ParquetWriter documents and accepts utc_timestamps, stores it, and passes it to the chunked writer options. A test checks timestamp and duration annotations and verifies that the written chunks read back in concatenated order.

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The UTC timestamp option is consistently propagated with existing behavior preserved by default; no merge-blocking risk is identified.

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python/cudf/cudf/tests/input_output/test_parquet.py: 1

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Cover timestamp and duration columns together.

The option also controls the separate Parquet TIME schema branch, but this test exercises only TIMESTAMP. Add a mixed timestamp/duration case for both flag values and check the store_schema=True duration behavior. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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- Around line 1863-1864: Update the docstring for the `store_schema` option to
qualify its duration-column claim: when `store_schema=True`, the native writer
stores timedelta columns as unannotated `INT64`, so they are not written as
Parquet `TIME` and have no `isAdjustedToUTC` field for this option to control.
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Check the stored Arrow timestamp timezone.

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Check the stored Arrow timestamp timezone.

The test checks the Parquet logical type but not the stored Arrow schema. A wrong Arrow timezone could pass these assertions and affect Arrow readers. When store_schema is true, decode the stored schema and assert that ts has timezone "UTC" or None, according to expected. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Addressed the CodeRabbit review:

• ParquetWriter docstring: durations other than days are unannotated INT64 with store_schema=True (b9d43cb).
• pylibcudf docstring: the option only changes metadata, not values, and also covers TIME durations and the stored arrow schema timezone (b9d43cb, 57ba571).
• Test: now covers timestamp and duration columns with store_schema False/True, and checks the stored arrow schema timezone (00a818a, ca7045f).

Docstring coverage warning: not changed. The new utc_timestamps parameter is documented in the ParquetWriter class docstring, like the other constructor parameters.

[TomAugspurger]

Looks good overall. I'd appreciate a second opinion from someone like @mroeschke on how to handle the inconsistency between ParquetWriter and DataFrame.to_parquet.

[TomAugspurger]

Does cudf have a policy about whether ParquetWriter's defaults should match DataFrame.to_parquet? I wonder if True is the appropriate default.

But IIUC, the current behavior is effectively True, so defaulting to False would be a bigger change.

[mroeschke]

I don't think we have an official or consistent policy for these cases.

My intuition, for cudf.pandas, is for this argument to align with pyarrow's version of this argument (since that's what pandas uses by default), so:

1. This argument should be named write_time_adjusted_to_utc instead of utc_timestamps
2. This argument should default to False if pyarrow's argument is semantically equivalent to cuDF's argument

[TomAugspurger]

/ok to test 57ba571