it calls np.delete, which casts to ndarray, which for e.g. PeriodDtype will cast to object ``` dti = pd.date_range("2016-01-01", periods=3, tz="US/Pacific") ser = pd.Series(dti) del ser[1] >>> ser 0 2016-01-01 00:00:00-08:00 2 2016-01-03 00:00:00-08:00 dtype: object ```