How to read timezone aware datetimes as a timezone naive local DatetimeIndex with read_csv in pandas?

Question

When I use pandas read_csv to read a column with a timezone aware datetime (and specify this column to be the index), pandas converts it to a timezone naive utc

Answer 1

The answer of Alex leads to a timezone aware DatetimeIndex. To get a timezone naive local DatetimeIndex, as asked by the OP, inform dateutil.parser.parser to ignore the timezone information by setting ignoretz=True:

import dateutil

date_parser = lambda x: dateutil.parser.parse(x, ignoretz=True)
df = pd.read_csv('Test.csv', index_col=0, parse_dates=True, date_parser=date_parser)

print(df)

outputs

                     Temperature
DateTime                        
2016-07-01 11:05:07       21.125
2016-07-01 11:05:09       21.138
2016-07-01 11:05:10       21.156
2016-07-01 11:05:11       21.179
2016-07-01 11:05:12       21.198
2016-07-01 11:05:13       21.206
2016-07-01 11:05:14       21.225
2016-07-01 11:05:15       21.233