TIMESTAMP_LTZ

Use the TIMESTAMP_LTZ data type to store complete timestamp values that include the date, the time of day, and the local time zone.

TIMESTAMP represents values comprising values of fields year, month, day, hour, minute, and second, with the session local timezone. The timestamp value represents an absolute point in time.

TIMESTAMP in Spark is a user-specified alias associated with one of the TIMESTAMP_LTZ and TIMESTAMP_NTZ variations. You can set the default timestamp type as TIMESTAMP_LTZ (default value) or TIMESTAMP_NTZ via the configuration spark.sql.timestampType.