Recommend .to_numpy() in lieu of .values

Author: Chris Bertinato

doc/source/whatsnew/v0.24.0.rst

@@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ Deprecations
 - :meth:`Series.nonzero` is deprecated and will be removed in a future version (:issue:`18262`)
 - Passing an integer to :meth:`Series.fillna` and :meth:`DataFrame.fillna` with ``timedelta64[ns]`` dtypes is deprecated, will raise ``TypeError`` in a future version.  Use ``obj.fillna(pd.Timedelta(...))`` instead (:issue:`24694`)
 - ``Series.cat.categorical``, ``Series.cat.name`` and ``Sersies.cat.index`` have been deprecated. Use the attributes on ``Series.cat`` or ``Series`` directly. (:issue:`24751`).
-- The functions :func:`pandas.to_datetime` and :func:`pandas.to_timedelta` have deprecated the ``box`` keyword. Use :attr:`Series.values` and :meth:`Timestamp.to_datetime64`/:meth:`Timedelta.to_timedelta64` instead to get an ndarray of values or ``numpy.timestamp64``/``numpy.timedelta64``, respectively (:issue:`24416`).
+- The functions :func:`pandas.to_datetime` and :func:`pandas.to_timedelta` have deprecated the ``box`` keyword. Use :meth:`.to_numpy` and :meth:`Timestamp.to_datetime64`/:meth:`Timedelta.to_timedelta64` instead to get an ndarray of values or ``numpy.datetime64``/``numpy.timedelta64``, respectively (:issue:`24416`).
 
 .. _whatsnew_0240.deprecations.datetimelike_int_ops:
 

pandas/core/tools/datetimes.py

@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ def to_datetime(arg, errors='raise', dayfirst=False, yearfirst=False,
         - If False returns ndarray of values.
 
         .. deprecated:: 0.24.0
-            Use :attr:`Series.values` or :meth:`Timestamp.to_datetime64`
+            Use :meth:`.to_numpy` or :meth:`Timestamp.to_datetime64`
             instead to get an ndarray of values or numpy.datetime64,
             respectively.
 

pandas/core/tools/timedeltas.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def to_timedelta(arg, unit='ns', box=True, errors='raise'):
           values of dtype timedelta64[ns].
 
         .. deprecated:: 0.24.0
-            Use :attr:`Series.values` or :meth:`Timedelta.to_timedelta64`
+            Use :meth:`.to_numpy` or :meth:`Timedelta.to_timedelta64`
             instead to get an ndarray of values or numpy.timedelta64,
             respectively.