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103380276 MDU6SXNzdWUxMDMzODAyNzY= 552 Dataset.to_dataframe() loses datetime64 timezone localization 2002703 closed 0     2 2015-08-26T22:34:11Z 2015-08-29T14:11:46Z 2015-08-29T14:11:46Z CONTRIBUTOR      

Not sure if feature or bug, but definitely made me look twice.

```

ds = xray.Dataset({'time': (['time'], [np.datetime64('2014-04-26T05:00:00-0700')])}) ds.time.values[0] numpy.datetime64('2014-04-26T05:00:00.000000000-0700')

ds.to_dataframe().index[0] Timestamp('2014-04-26 12:00:00') ```

I'd expected to see the DataFrame index maintaining its local timezone info:

Timestamp('2014-04-26 05:00:00-0700', tz='America/Los_Angeles')

That said, the UTC that I actually get back is the same time so math should still work. I'm opening this issue mostly as a matter for discussion -- feel free to close if you think xray should be pushing users towards UTC.

 
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