Impala timestamps don't match Hive - a timezone issue?

Question

I have some eventlog data in HDFS that, in its raw format, looks like this:

2015-11-05 19:36:25.764 INFO    [...etc...]

An external table p

Answer 1

be VERY careful with the answers above due to https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IMPALA-2716

As for now, the best workaround is not to use TIMESTAMP data type and store timestamps as strings.