From 76f5d2d26d77487e65ce40ed3cc266c5ac8f6359 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Davis <mjmdavis@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 12:24:36 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] clarified the documentation for DF.drop_duplicates (#25056)

---
 pandas/core/frame.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pandas/core/frame.py b/pandas/core/frame.py
index 78c9f2aa96472..ade05ab27093e 100644
--- a/pandas/core/frame.py
+++ b/pandas/core/frame.py
@@ -4625,7 +4625,8 @@ def dropna(self, axis=0, how='any', thresh=None, subset=None,
     def drop_duplicates(self, subset=None, keep='first', inplace=False):
         """
         Return DataFrame with duplicate rows removed, optionally only
-        considering certain columns.
+        considering certain columns. Indexes, including time indexes
+        are ignored.
 
         Parameters
         ----------