Time zone for the Date and Timestamp data type fields in Parquet file format defaults to the Secure Agent host machine time zone.
When you run a mapping to read from
or write to
Microsoft Azure Synapse SQL and select Parquet as the staging format in the advanced source or target properties, the time zone defaults to the Secure Agent host machine time zone.
To change the Date and Timestamp to the UTC time zone, you can either set the Spark properties globally in the Secure Agent directory for all the tasks in the organization that use this Secure Agent, or you can set the Spark session properties for a specific task from the task properties:
To set the properties globally, perform the following tasks: