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The UTC time for different locations in search_dates

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Description

I am using seach_dates in dateparser.search to extract dates and times.
I am using this script to get the datetime.

PARSED_DATES_SETTINGS = {'DEFAULT_LANGUAGES': ["en"],
                        "TO_TIMEZONE": "UTC",
                        "PREFER_DATES_FROM": "future",
                        "SKIP_TOKENS": ['time', 'per', 'sam', 'or', 'any', 'no', 'at', 'set', 'sec', 'man', 'to', 'did', 'her', 'api', 'be', 'are', 'see', 'more', 'can', 'out', 'a', 'now', 'do', 'so', 'on', '1:1', 'second','seconds', 'minute','minutes', 'me', 'an', 'am'],
                        }
text="call me next tuesday"
dt=search_dates(text=text,settings=PARSED_DATES_SETTINGS)[0][1]
dt

When the time information is not present in the text, it is giving the UTC time as 18:30. But, I would expect it to give time as 00:00 since time is not present.

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Start with the reported search_dates call in dateparser.search and reproduce it using the provided PARSED_DATES_SETTINGS and “call me next tuesday” input. Trace how a missing time is converted when TO_TIMEZONE is UTC. Done means text without time information returns 00:00 rather than 18:30, while preserving the expected timezone behavior.

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