BUG: Correctly localize naive ts strings with Series and datetimetz dtype (pandas-dev#17415)

Add whatsnew

Fix lint error

Author: mroeschke

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt

@@ -1027,6 +1027,7 @@ Conversion
 - Bug in :meth:`~DataFrame.astype` converting to object dtype when passed extension type classes (`DatetimeTZDtype``, ``CategoricalDtype``) rather than instances. Now a ``TypeError`` is raised when a class is passed (:issue:`17780`).
 - Bug in :meth:`to_numeric` in which elements were not always being coerced to numeric when ``errors='coerce'`` (:issue:`17007`, :issue:`17125`)
 - Bug in ``DataFrame`` and ``Series`` constructors where ``range`` objects are converted to ``int32`` dtype on Windows instead of ``int64`` (:issue:`16804`)
+- Bug in localization of a naive, datetime string in a ``Series`` constructor with a ``datetime[ns, timezone]`` dtype (:issue:`174151`)
 
 Indexing
 ^^^^^^^^

pandas/core/dtypes/cast.py

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
                      is_integer_dtype,
                      is_datetime_or_timedelta_dtype,
                      is_bool_dtype, is_scalar,
-                     _string_dtypes,
+                     is_string_dtype, _string_dtypes,
                      pandas_dtype,
                      _ensure_int8, _ensure_int16,
                      _ensure_int32, _ensure_int64,
@@ -998,12 +998,16 @@ def maybe_cast_to_datetime(value, dtype, errors='raise'):
                         if is_datetime64:
                             value = to_datetime(value, errors=errors)._values
                         elif is_datetime64tz:
-                            # input has to be UTC at this point, so just
-                            # localize
-                            value = (to_datetime(value, errors=errors)
-                                     .tz_localize('UTC')
-                                     .tz_convert(dtype.tz)
-                                     )
+                            is_dt_string = is_string_dtype(value)
+                            value = to_datetime(value, errors=errors)
+                            if is_dt_string:
+                                # Strings here are naive, so directly localize
+                                value = value.tz_localize(dtype.tz)
+                            else:
+                                # Numeric values are UTC at this point,
+                                # so localize and convert
+                                value = (value.tz_localize('UTC')
+                                         .tz_convert(dtype.tz))
                         elif is_timedelta64:
                             value = to_timedelta(value, errors=errors)._values
                     except (AttributeError, ValueError, TypeError):

pandas/tests/series/test_constructors.py

@@ -574,6 +574,12 @@ def test_constructor_with_datetime_tz(self):
         expected = Series(pd.DatetimeIndex(['NaT', 'NaT'], tz='US/Eastern'))
         assert_series_equal(s, expected)
 
+        # GH 17415: With naive string
+        ts_naive = '2013-01-01 00:00:00'
+        result = Series([ts_naive], dtype='datetime64[ns, CET]')
+        expected = Series([pd.Timestamp(ts_naive, tz='CET')])
+        assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
     def test_construction_interval(self):
         # construction from interval & array of intervals
         index = IntervalIndex.from_breaks(np.arange(3), closed='right')