Add flexible deserialization for datetime fill values #3031
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This PR addresses a backwards incompatibility issue created in recent standardization of the fill_value serialization/deserialization work. It does so by adopting a flexible decoding approach that takes either the minimum signed 64bit value or else 'NaT' as meaning
Not a Time
while sticking to writing fill values as 'NaT'.Fixes #3028
TODO:
docs/user-guide/*.rst
changes/