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jbrockmendel opened this issue Jan 17, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #50949
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DEPR: parsing tzlocal depending on user's system timezone #50791

jbrockmendel opened this issue Jan 17, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #50949
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Deprecate Functionality to remove in pandas Timezones Timezone data dtype

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jbrockmendel commented Jan 17, 2023

# When run on a machine in located in US/Pacific timezone

>>> pd.Timestamp("2023-01-17 09:19 PDT")
Timestamp('2023-01-17 09:19:00-0800', tz='tzlocal()')

>>> pd.Timestamp("2023-01-17 09:19 EDT")
/usr/local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/dateutil/parser/_parser.py:1207: UnknownTimezoneWarning: tzname EDT identified but not understood.  Pass `tzinfos` argument in order to correctly return a timezone-aware datetime.  In a future version, this will raise an exception.
  warnings.warn("tzname {tzname} identified but not understood.  "
Timestamp('2023-01-17 09:19:00')

I'm fairly confident if @jreback ran the same examples while located in US/Eastern, he would get flipped results.

(Note also that I passed "PDT" for Pacific Daylight Time, even though we are on standard time. I'd get the same results with "PST/EST" instead of "PDT/EDT".)

I propose we deprecate recognizing this at all. i.e. cases that currently return tzlocal depending on your system timezone would raise in the future.

@jbrockmendel jbrockmendel added Bug Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels Jan 17, 2023
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xref #18702

@rhshadrach rhshadrach added Timezones Timezone data dtype Deprecate Functionality to remove in pandas and removed Bug Needs Triage Issue that has not been reviewed by a pandas team member labels Jan 24, 2023
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