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output empty creationTimestamp as null
**Release note**
```release-note
NONE
```
Updates the value of the `creationTimestamp` field to be `null`
when empty, to keep parity between it and `deletionTimestamp`.
Adds a round-trip test to ensure that unstructured objects containing
empty metadata fields are able to be re-converted back into internal
or external objects. Prior to the proposed patch in this PR, an
unstructured object whose `.metadata.creationTimestamp` value had
been set through the metadata accessor to an empty value
(`metav1.Time{}` in this case), was unable to be re-converted to an
internal or external type using the runtime decoder. Conversion would
fail with the error:
```
unstructured_test.go:177: FromUnstructured failed: parsing time "" as "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00": cannot parse "" as "2006"
```
cc @liggitt @fabianofranz
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