https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Best-Practice-JSON-to-Avro-data-type-preserving/m-p/148376#M110902 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/9304/tspann.html" nodeid="9304">@Timothy Spann</A> : I tried editing the avro schema manually adding "type": "timestamp-millis" in place of "string". However the processor does not accept this and notifies a "Schema Validation Failure"</P> Fri, 27 Jan 2017 03:57:27 GMT arunak 2017-01-27T03:57:27Z