From 7079541725fb8ad322e7a07f925c66f515aa2a22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Nicholas <tom@earthmover.io>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 14:34:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "Remove unnecessary dtype conversion in icechunk
 writer (#760)"

This reverts commit 4c3c4fd3e95f6e9fd1bd0550ac3295f1eba23209.
---
 virtualizarr/writers/icechunk.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/virtualizarr/writers/icechunk.py b/virtualizarr/writers/icechunk.py
index 536fe727..1de18022 100644
--- a/virtualizarr/writers/icechunk.py
+++ b/virtualizarr/writers/icechunk.py
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ def write_virtual_variable_to_icechunk(
             name=name,
             shape=metadata.shape,
             chunks=metadata.chunks,
-            dtype=metadata.data_type,
+            dtype=metadata.data_type.to_native_dtype(),
             filters=filters,
             compressors=compressors,
             serializer=serializer,