pydata/pandas — pull request #4689 by prossahl (2013-08-27 16:31:45+00:00)
Title: ENH: Add dateutil timezone support (GH4688)

This adds `dateutil` time zone support as a compliment to `pytz`. The tests are designed to demonstrate that the same result is obtained using either library except where the libraries themselves differ (at the onset of DST).

There is a fair amount of tricky coding here in `tslib.pyx` as it is accessing private members of the time zone object, cacheing them and performing calculations on those cached values.

This should close GH4688.