TST: verify that #1676 has been fixed

Author: wesm

pandas/tseries/tests/test_timezones.py

@@ -476,6 +476,16 @@ def test_frame_from_records_utc(self):
         # it works
         DataFrame.from_records([rec], index='begin_time')
 
+    def test_dateutil_tzoffset_support(self):
+        from dateutil.tz import tzoffset
+        values = [188.5, 328.25]
+        tzinfo = tzoffset(None, 7200)
+        index = [datetime(2012, 5, 11, 11, tzinfo=tzinfo),
+                 datetime(2012, 5, 11, 12, tzinfo=tzinfo)]
+        series = Series(data=values, index=index)
+
+        self.assertEquals(series.index.tz, tzinfo)
+
 class TestTimeZones(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def setUp(self):