BUG: Raise on coercion of ambiguous datetime strings to datetime64 #61489
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This PR addresses a bug where object-dtype arrays containing ambiguous datetime strings (e.g.,
"12/01/2020"
,"13/01/2020"
) were being silently coerced todatetime64[ns]
, potentially resulting in inconsistent or unintended parsing.Introduced stricter input validation during coercion to detect and raise a
ValueError
when an ambiguous format is inferred but cannot be consistently parsed.Added tests to cover both direct assignment and constructor-based coercion scenarios.
closes BUG: inserting list of strings into Series auto-infers them as datetimes with mixed formats #61353
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