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Reproducible Example
In [2]: Timestamp('13-01-2000')
<ipython-input-2-710ff60ba7e6>:1: UserWarning: Parsing dates in DD/MM/YYYY format when dayfirst=False (the default) was specified. This may lead to inconsistently parsed dates! Specify a format to ensure consistent parsing.
Timestamp('13-01-2000')
Out[2]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')
Issue Description
This was added in #42908
This helped warn about some of the inconsistencies in #12585, but it's now unnecessary
This warning only shows up when using Timestamp
- however, users can't pass format
or dayfirst
to Timestamp
, so the warning is unnecessary
If people use to_datetime
, there's already the more informative message(s) from PDEP4:
In [1]: to_datetime('13-01-2000')
<ipython-input-1-9a129e754905>:1: UserWarning: Parsing dates in %d-%m-%Y format when dayfirst=False was specified. Pass `dayfirst=True` or specify a format to silence this warning.
to_datetime('13-01-2000')
Out[1]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')
If we remove the warning from parse_delimited_date
, then to_datetime
will keep its informative warnings from PDEP4, and Timestamp
will no longer show a warning which users can't do anything about
Expected Behavior
In [2]: Timestamp('13-01-2000')
Out[2]: Timestamp('2000-01-13 00:00:00')
Installed Versions
Comment From: ShisuiUzumaki
@MarcoGorelli Do we need to remove this warning, if it is not too complex a task, I would like to try it. Could you guide me through the process of removing and testing?
Comment From: MarcoGorelli
I've already opened https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/pull/50232, sorry