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Description
Various places in pandas convert a series of datetime strings to datetime64/timestamps/etc' objects. read_csv, to_datetime, upcoming
sql improvements and probably elsewhere.
The code paths each takes are seperate so that fast paths aren't consistently available, and it's difficult to apply improvements such as #6021 in one place
and have them apply everywhere. and there's room for internal incosnistencies in parsing behaviour (#5958).
https://github.com/pydata/pandas/pull/5950/files#r9007497
#4826
#5993
Do something about it.
cc @jreback , @danbirken