On pandas 0.23 (correct): ``` In [2]: pd.to_timedelta('NaT', box=False) Out[2]: numpy.timedelta64('NaT','ns') ``` But on pandas 0.24: ``` In [2]: pd.to_timedelta('NaT', box=False) Out[2]: numpy.datetime64('NaT') ``` The result is a datetime, not a timedelta.