BUG: Cannot use tz-aware origin in to_datetime (#16842)

Author: ivybae

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.21.0.txt

@@ -385,3 +385,4 @@ Other
 - Bug in :func:`eval` where the ``inplace`` parameter was being incorrectly handled (:issue:`16732`)
 - Bug in ``.isin()`` in which checking membership in empty ``Series`` objects raised an error (:issue:`16991`)
 - Bug in :func:`unique` where checking a tuple of strings raised a ``TypeError`` (:issue:`17108`)
+- Bug in :func:`to_datetime` that cannot use tz-aware origin (:issue:`16842`)

pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py

@@ -486,6 +486,10 @@ def _convert_listlike(arg, box, format, name=None, tz=tz):
                     arg=arg,
                     origin=origin))
 
+        if origin.tzinfo is not None:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "origin {} must have no timezone".format(origin))
+
         # we are going to offset back to unix / epoch time
         try:
             offset = tslib.Timestamp(origin) - tslib.Timestamp(0)

pandas/tests/indexes/datetimes/test_tools.py

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 import dateutil
 import numpy as np
 from dateutil.parser import parse
-from datetime import datetime, date, time
+from datetime import datetime, date, time, timezone
 from distutils.version import LooseVersion
 
 import pandas as pd
@@ -1589,6 +1589,12 @@ def test_invalid_origins(self, origin, exc, units, units_from_epochs):
             pd.to_datetime(units_from_epochs, unit=units,
                            origin=origin)
 
+    def test_invalid_origins_tzinfo(self):
+        # GH16842
+        with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+            pd.to_datetime(1, unit='D',
+                           origin=datetime(2000, 1, 1, tzinfo=timezone.utc))
+
     def test_processing_order(self):
         # make sure we handle out-of-bounds *before*
         # constructing the dates