Strip timezone info in pandas

Question

I have been struggling with removing the time zone info from a column in a pandas dataframe. I have checked the following question, but it does not work for me:

Can

Answer 1

If your series contains only datetimes, then you can do:

my_series.dt.tz_localize(None)

This will remove the timezone information ( it will not change the time) and return a series of naive local times, which can be exported to excel using to_excel() for example.