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[jira] [Created] (ARROW-835) Add TimedeltaType to describe time intervals

Jeff Reback created ARROW-835:
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             Summary: Add TimedeltaType to describe time intervals
                 Key: ARROW-835
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-835
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Jeff Reback
            Priority: Minor


xref https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/551 and https://github.com/apache/arrow/pull/551#issuecomment-294325969

this will allow round-tripping of pandas ``Timedelta`` and numpy ``timedelt64[ns]`` types. The will have a similar TimeUnit to TimestampType (s, us, ms, ns). Possible impl include making this pure 64-bit.





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