TST/DOC: apply date() with timezones

doc/source/timeseries.rst

@@ -544,8 +544,8 @@ There are several time/date properties that one can access from ``Timestamp`` or
     second,"The seconds of the datetime"
     microsecond,"The microseconds of the datetime"
     nanosecond,"The nanoseconds of the datetime"
-    date,"Returns datetime.date"
-    time,"Returns datetime.time"
+    date,"Returns datetime.date (does not contain timezone information)"
+    time,"Returns datetime.time (does not contain timezone information)"
     dayofyear,"The ordinal day of year"
     weekofyear,"The week ordinal of the year"
     week,"The week ordinal of the year"

pandas/tests/series/test_datetime_values.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # coding=utf-8
 # pylint: disable-msg=E1101,W0612
 
-from datetime import datetime
+from datetime import datetime, date
 
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
@@ -410,3 +410,15 @@ def test_between(self):
         result = s[s.between(s[3], s[17], inclusive=False)]
         expected = s[5:16].dropna()
         assert_series_equal(result, expected)
+
+    def test_date_tz(self):
+        # GH11757
+        rng = pd.DatetimeIndex(['2014-04-04 23:56',
+                                '2014-07-18 21:24',
+                                '2015-11-22 22:14'], tz="US/Eastern")
+        s = Series(rng)
+        expected = Series([date(2014, 4, 4),
+                           date(2014, 7, 18),
+                           date(2015, 11, 22)])
+        assert_series_equal(s.dt.date, expected)
+        assert_series_equal(s.apply(lambda x: x.date()), expected)

pandas/tseries/index.py

@@ -1597,7 +1597,8 @@ def time(self):
     @property
     def date(self):
         """
-        Returns numpy array of datetime.date. The date part of the Timestamps.
+        Returns numpy array of python datetime.date objects (namely, the date
+        part of Timestamps without timezone information).
         """
         return self._maybe_mask_results(_algos.arrmap_object(
             self.asobject.values, lambda x: x.date()))