🐛 no longer raise user warning when plotting tz aware time series

Author: Marco Gorelli

doc/source/whatsnew/v1.1.0.rst

@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ I/O
 Plotting
 ^^^^^^^^
 
--
+- Plotting tz-aware timeseries no longer gives UserWarning (:issue:`31205`)
 -
 
 Groupby/resample/rolling

pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/timeseries.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # TODO: Use the fact that axis can have units to simplify the process
 
 import functools
+import warnings
 
 import numpy as np
 
@@ -251,7 +252,9 @@ def _maybe_convert_index(ax, data):
         freq = frequencies.get_period_alias(freq)
 
         if isinstance(data.index, ABCDatetimeIndex):
-            data = data.to_period(freq=freq)
+            with warnings.catch_warnings():
+                warnings.filterwarnings("ignore", category=UserWarning)
+                data = data.to_period(freq=freq)
         elif isinstance(data.index, ABCPeriodIndex):
             data.index = data.index.asfreq(freq=freq)
     return data

pandas/tests/plotting/test_datetimelike.py

@@ -43,19 +43,15 @@ def setup_method(self, method):
     def teardown_method(self, method):
         tm.close()
 
-    # Ignore warning
-    # ```
-    # Converting to PeriodArray/Index representation will drop timezone information.
-    # ```
-    # which occurs for UTC-like timezones.
     @pytest.mark.slow
-    @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore:msg:UserWarning")
     def test_ts_plot_with_tz(self, tz_aware_fixture):
         # GH2877, GH17173
         tz = tz_aware_fixture
         index = date_range("1/1/2011", periods=2, freq="H", tz=tz)
         ts = Series([188.5, 328.25], index=index)
-        _check_plot_works(ts.plot)
+        with pytest.warns(UserWarning) as user_warnings:
+            _check_plot_works(ts.plot)
+        assert len(user_warnings) == 0
 
     def test_fontsize_set_correctly(self):
         # For issue #8765