apache/spark — pull request #3158 by culler (2014-11-07 16:53:41+00:00)
Title: [SPARK-4205][SQL] Timestamp and Date with comparisons / DSL literals

This is the same as pull request #3066, which I closed due to corruption of the repository after I tried to rebase so as to include modifications to a test file added after the original pull request was issued.

There are two parts:
(1) new RichDate and RichTimestamp classes provide comparison operators, which allows them to be used in DSL expressions, and initializers which accept string representations of dates or times;
(2) new implicit conversions are added which allow recognition of DSL expressions which have a literal on the left, e.g. 0 < 'x .