Kafka Connect TimestampConverter and JVM Default Time Zone: Regional String Interoperability Gap
In recent Kafka Connect releases, the TimestampConverter SMT converts fields between Unix epoch, string, date, and timestamp types. For string targets, it applies a format pattern but does not expose a dedicated time zone setting. Instead, formatting and parsing rely on the worker JVM's default time zone and locale. This creates an interoperability gap when
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