Removing the 'closed' kwarg from pd.date_range in gallery examples (#1540)

* removing closed parameter from pandas daframes

* Update v0.9.3.rst

* Apply suggestions from code review

* Update docs/examples/solar-tracking/plot_single_axis_tracking_on_sloped_terrain.py

* Apply suggestions from code review

Co-authored-by: Cliff Hansen <cwhanse@sandia.gov>
Co-authored-by: Kevin Anderson <kevin.anderson@nrel.gov>

Author: 3 people

docs/examples/solar-position/plot_sunpath_diagrams.py

@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@
 tz = 'Asia/Calcutta'
 lat, lon = 28.6, 77.2
 
-times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01 00:00:00', '2020-01-01', closed='left',
-                      freq='H', tz=tz)
+times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01 00:00:00', '2020-01-01', freq='H', tz=tz)
 solpos = solarposition.get_solarposition(times, lat, lon)
 # remove nighttime
 solpos = solpos.loc[solpos['apparent_elevation'] > 0, :]

docs/examples/solar-tracking/plot_single_axis_tracking.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 tz = 'US/Eastern'
 lat, lon = 40, -80
 
-times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01', '2019-01-02', closed='left', freq='5min',
+times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01', '2019-01-02', freq='5min',
                       tz=tz)
 solpos = solarposition.get_solarposition(times, lat, lon)
 

docs/examples/solar-tracking/plot_single_axis_tracking_on_sloped_terrain.py

@@ -91,8 +91,8 @@
 gcr = 0.4
 
 # calculate the solar position
-times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01 06:00', '2019-01-01 18:00', closed='left',
-                      freq='1min', tz=tz)
+times = pd.date_range('2019-01-01 06:00', '2019-01-01 18:00', freq='1min',
+                      tz=tz)
 solpos = solarposition.get_solarposition(times, lat, lon)
 
 # compare the backtracking angle at various terrain slopes

docs/sphinx/source/whatsnew/v0.9.3.rst

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ v0.9.3 (TBD)
 
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
+  * Removed the kwarg ``closed`` from ``pd.date_range`` in the examples since it is deprecated for pandas >= 1.4.0. (:pull:`1540`)
 
 Enhancements
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ Requirements
 
 Contributors
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
+João Guilherme (:ghuser:`joaoguilhermeS`)