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cc @jorisvandenbossche this is coming up the quantile tests with --array-manager
index = pd.period_range("2016-01-01", periods=9, freq="D", name="A")
obj = pd.DataFrame(index).copy()
obj.iloc[:] = index._na_value
>>> obj.dtypes
A datetime64[ns]
dtype: object
We'd like to keep period[D]
here.