Hello,

I wanted to add a specified offset (10 seconds) to and existing datetime (an index previously created by pd.to_datetime), so I thought creating a timedelta and adding it would do the trick. As you can see it doesn't yield an error but produces a rather strange results.

@buddha[J:T26]|5> base = pd.to_datetime(datetime.datetime.now()) @buddha[J:T26]|6> offset = pd.to_timedelta(10, unit='s') @buddha[J:T26]|7> offset <7> numpy.timedelta64(10000000000,'ns') @buddha[J:T26]|8> base <8> Timestamp('2014-04-05 13:13:40.374000', tz=None) @buddha[J:T26]|9> base + offset <9> Timestamp('2014-04-05 13:13:41.784065408', tz=None) 

If I try to do the same by creating a datetime.timedelta then everything works as expected.

@buddha[J:T26]|10> offset2 = datetime.timedelta(seconds = 10) @buddha[J:T26]|11> base + offset2 <11> Timestamp('2014-04-05 13:13:50.374000', tz=None) 

This is really confusing and hard to spot. I think that pd.to_datetime and pd.to_timedelta should be compatible, but if they are not, please make the error easier to spot.

Thanks,
Adam