Autocast data / flags indices to pd.DateTime

...and fail hard if autocast doesn't work

But accept other indices as wel. Try to_datetime(index) if fails leave untouched, however accept RangeIndex.

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Closing for now

why close this?

Because it is non trivial to implement (we have many places, where data can enter the system and needs to be casted) and I still think it is a non-relevant feature. Users of the Python API need to somehow read in their data anyways, the additional step to cast the index is usually rather small.

That's at least my opinion, if you disagree, please reopen.

i would keep it in the backlog and open as a riminder

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