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BUG: arithmetic can break equality-hash invariant for Timestamp during DST transition #60084

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Reproducible Example

import pandas as pd

# this is immediately following a DST transition
dt_str = "2023-11-05 01:00-08:00"
tz_str = "America/Los_Angeles"

ts1 = pd.Timestamp(dt_str, tz=tz_str)

# This is the shortest way I know of to reproduce--more complex math or `pd.date_range` can also
# create this behavior.
ts2 = ts1 + pd.Timedelta(hours=0)
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               
assert ts1 == ts2  # True
assert hash(ts1) == hash(ts2)  # False

Issue Description

Datetime arithmetic on a Timestamp instance on a DST transition can create two Timestamps that compare equal but have different hash values. Inspecting the example, the cause seems to be that ts1.fold == 0 and ts2.fold == 1, despite otherwise being equal and representing the same instant in time. This breaks the invariant documented in object.__hash__:

object.__hash__(self)
... The only required property is that objects which compare equal have the same hash value; ...

Converting to UTC or using pytz's normalization as ts.tz.normalize(ts) both serve as workarounds for this issue.

Expected Behavior

I expected Timestamp instances that compare equal to have the same hash value.

Installed Versions

INSTALLED VERSIONS

commit : 0691c5c
python : 3.12.6
python-bits : 64
OS : Linux
OS-release : 5.15.153.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
Version : #1 SMP Fri Mar 29 23:14:13 UTC 2024
machine : x86_64
processor : x86_64
byteorder : little
LC_ALL : None
LANG : C.UTF-8
LOCALE : C.UTF-8

pandas : 2.2.3
numpy : 2.1.2
pytz : 2024.2
dateutil : 2.9.0.post0
pip : 24.1.2
Cython : None
sphinx : None
IPython : 8.28.0
adbc-driver-postgresql: None
adbc-driver-sqlite : None
bs4 : None
blosc : None
bottleneck : None
dataframe-api-compat : None
fastparquet : None
fsspec : None
html5lib : None
hypothesis : None
gcsfs : None
jinja2 : None
lxml.etree : None
matplotlib : None
numba : None
numexpr : None
odfpy : None
openpyxl : None
pandas_gbq : None
psycopg2 : None
pymysql : None
pyarrow : None
pyreadstat : None
pytest : None
python-calamine : None
pyxlsb : None
s3fs : None
scipy : None
sqlalchemy : None
tables : None
tabulate : None
xarray : None
xlrd : None
xlsxwriter : None
zstandard : None
tzdata : 2024.2
qtpy : None
pyqt5 : None

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