fix: datetime with timezone excel export (#25318)

Co-authored-by: Michael S. Molina <70410625+michael-s-molina@users.noreply.github.com>

superset/utils/excel.py

@@ -22,6 +22,11 @@ import pandas as pd
 
 def df_to_excel(df: pd.DataFrame, **kwargs: Any) -> Any:
     output = io.BytesIO()
+
+    # timezones are not supported
+    for column in df.select_dtypes(include=["datetimetz"]).columns:
+        df[column] = df[column].astype(str)
+
     # pylint: disable=abstract-class-instantiated
     with pd.ExcelWriter(output, engine="xlsxwriter") as writer:
         df.to_excel(writer, **kwargs)

tests/unit_tests/utils/excel_tests.py

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
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+
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
+
+import pandas as pd
+
+from superset.utils.excel import df_to_excel
+
+
+def test_timezone_conversion() -> None:
+    """
+    Test that columns with timezones are converted to a string.
+    """
+    df = pd.DataFrame({"dt": [datetime(2023, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=timezone.utc)]})
+    contents = df_to_excel(df)
+    assert pd.read_excel(contents)["dt"][0] == "2023-01-01 00:00:00+00:00"