BUG: Error when trying to use `pd.date_range`

[khider]

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Reproducible Example

Edit[rhshadrach]: On pandas >= 3.0, you need to use freq='1000000000YS-JAN' below.

import pandas as pd
import numpy as np

pd.date_range(start = np.datetime64('500000000-01-01', 's'), end = np.datetime64('1500000000-01-01', 's'), freq='1000000000AS-JAN', unit='s')

Issue Description

Error:
raise ValueError(f"Offset {offset} did not increment date")

ValueError: Offset <YearBegin: month=1> did not increment date

Expected Behavior

Create my date range

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : fd3f571
python : 3.11.7.final.0
python-bits : 64
OS : Darwin
OS-release : 23.1.0
Version : Darwin Kernel Version 23.1.0: Mon Oct 9 21:32:11 PDT 2023; root:xnu-10002.41.9~7/RELEASE_ARM64_T6030
machine : arm64
processor : arm
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : en_US.UTF-8
LANG : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE : en_US.UTF-8

pandas : 2.2.0
numpy : 1.26.3
pytz : 2023.3.post1
dateutil : 2.8.2
setuptools : 68.2.2
pip : 23.3.1
Cython : None
pytest : 8.0.0
hypothesis : None
sphinx : 5.0.2
blosc : None
feather : None
xlsxwriter : None
lxml.etree : None
html5lib : None
pymysql : None
psycopg2 : None
jinja2 : 3.1.2
IPython : 8.20.0
pandas_datareader : None
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : 4.12.2
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
gcsfs : None
matplotlib : 3.8.2
numba : 0.58.1
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
pyarrow : 15.0.0
pyreadstat : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : 1.12.0
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : 0.9.0
xarray : None
xlrd : 2.0.1
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2023.4
qtpy : 2.4.1
pyqt5 : None

[rhshadrach]

Thanks for the report; it's not clear to me if date_range should be able to handle values at this scale. Further investigations are welcome.

cc @MarcoGorelli

[khider]

This error came up as part of CI testing of a package. See here: https://github.com/LinkedEarth/Pyleoclim_util/blob/bf9716c22329b6bdefc2c9c2a39dc4982289ad5a/pyleoclim/tests/test_core_Series.py#L1274

The tests used to work so it was supported in previous versions of Pandas.

Just to confirm, it works with dates in the ~1500.

[rhshadrach]

Thanks for adding that, best to always indicate it's a regression! That said, I'm seeing this fail in pandas 2.1.0 and pandas 2.0.0. Prior to that, pd.date_range did not take the unit argument.

Can you produce an environment where the example is successful, and report the output of pd.show_versions()?

[khider]

Tried it on our JupyterHub and it worked (although note that this was before AS deprecation warning).

Output of pd.show_versions():

------------------
commit           : 965ceca9fd796940050d6fc817707bba1c4f9bff
python           : 3.10.11.final.0
python-bits      : 64
OS               : Linux
OS-release       : 5.15.120+
Version          : #1 SMP Fri Jul 21 03:39:30 UTC 2023
machine          : x86_64
processor        : x86_64
byteorder        : little
LC_ALL           : en_US.UTF-8
LANG             : en_US.UTF-8
LOCALE           : en_US.UTF-8

pandas           : 2.0.2
numpy            : 1.23.5
pytz             : 2023.3
dateutil         : 2.8.2
setuptools       : 68.0.0
pip              : 23.1.2
Cython           : 0.29.35
pytest           : None
hypothesis       : None
sphinx           : None
blosc            : None
feather          : None
xlsxwriter       : None
lxml.etree       : 4.9.2
html5lib         : None
pymysql          : None
psycopg2         : None
jinja2           : 3.1.2
IPython          : 8.14.0
pandas_datareader: None
bs4              : 4.12.2
bottleneck       : None
brotli           : 
fastparquet      : None
fsspec           : 2023.6.0
gcsfs            : None
matplotlib       : 3.7.1
numba            : 0.57.1
numexpr          : None
odfpy            : None
openpyxl         : None
pandas_gbq       : None
pyarrow          : 12.0.0
pyreadstat       : None
pyxlsb           : None
s3fs             : 2023.6.0
scipy            : 1.10.1
snappy           : None
sqlalchemy       : 2.0.15
tables           : None
tabulate         : 0.9.0
xarray           : 2023.5.0
xlrd             : 2.0.1
zstandard        : None
tzdata           : 2023.3
qtpy             : 2.3.1
pyqt5            : None
None

The container is available here: https://quay.io/repository/linkedearth/linkedearthhub?tab=tags

Latest tag should work. The problem with the GitHub tests is very new. It was passing as of a week ago. Unfortunately, we don't pin versions for CI so I have no idea what was actually installed then.

[rhshadrach]

Thanks - I've edited the OP to be AS for now. I was able to confirm on 2.0.2 but could not run a git-bisect due to the change in build systems. @phofl - I recall you had a solve for this?

Further investigations and PRs to fix are welcome!

[quangngd]

Inside pandas/core/arrays/datetimes.py:_generate_range, when applying the offset to the current date

next_date = offset._apply(cur)

As Timestamp cur is converted to cython object _Timestamp, its year is set to 1972. See pandas/_libs/tslibs/timestamps.pyx:create_timestamp_from_ts

The change originates from #47720. Don't really know where to go next tho. Maybe depends on how we want to handle out-of-bound pydatetime

[rhshadrach]

cc @jbrockmendel