Merge pull request #7318 from sinhrks/infer

BUG: inferred_freq results in None with eastern hemisphere timezones

Author: jreback

doc/source/v0.14.1.txt

@@ -85,3 +85,4 @@ Bug Fixes
 - Bug in ``isnull()`` when ``mode.use_inf_as_null == True`` where isnull
   wouldn't test ``True`` when it encountered an ``inf``/``-inf``
   (:issue:`7315`).
+- Bug in inferred_freq results in None for eastern hemisphere timezones (:issue:`7310`)

pandas/tseries/frequencies.py

@@ -668,6 +668,9 @@ class _FrequencyInferer(object):
     def __init__(self, index, warn=True):
         self.index = index
         self.values = np.asarray(index).view('i8')
+        if index.tz is not None:
+            self.values = tslib.date_normalize(self.values, index.tz)
+
         self.warn = warn
 
         if len(index) < 3:

pandas/tseries/tests/test_frequencies.py

@@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ def test_infer_freq(self):
         rng = Index(rng.to_timestamp('D', how='e').asobject)
         self.assertEqual(rng.inferred_freq, 'Q-OCT')
 
+    def test_infer_freq_tz(self):
+
+        # GH 7310
+        for tz in [None, 'Asia/Tokyo', 'US/Pacific', 'Europe/Paris']:
+            dates = ['2010-11-30', '2010-12-31', '2011-01-31', '2011-02-28']
+            idx = DatetimeIndex(dates)
+            self.assertEqual(idx.inferred_freq, 'M')
+
+            dates = ['2011-01-01', '2011-01-02', '2011-01-03', '2011-01-04']
+            idx = DatetimeIndex(dates)
+            self.assertEqual(idx.inferred_freq, 'D')
+
+            dates = ['2011-12-31 22:00', '2011-12-31 23:00', '2012-01-01 00:00', '2012-01-01 01:00']
+            idx = DatetimeIndex(dates)
+            self.assertEqual(idx.inferred_freq, 'H')
+
     def test_not_monotonic(self):
         rng = _dti(['1/31/2000', '1/31/2001', '1/31/2002'])
         rng = rng[::-1]