Looking at #31929, we can fix the specific case there, but there is a long tail of mixed-and-match positional/keyword arguments that will still be fragile. These will be easier to deal with if more of them are keyword-only, in particular unit, maybe nanosecond.
Comment From: mroeschke
+1, making nanosecond keyword only would fix https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/32526
I wouldn't mind for deprecating epoch ints + unit or strings inputs entirely in favor of pd.to_datetime
Comment From: jbrockmendel
making nanosecond keyword only would fix #32526
seems reasonable
Hard part is doing the deprecation without a giant perf hit. i.e. i dont think we can use the deprecate_nonkeyword_arguments decorator here. https://groups.google.com/g/cython-users/c/KQ4WwXWCXBA suggests there isn't an easy way to do this in cython.
Comment From: mroeschke
Maybe this is a candidate for a 2.0 break then? https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/44823