Fix sa.Time() raising Cannot find data type: time on CrateDB

[florinutz]

CrateTypeCompiler had no visit_time, so sa.Time fell through to SQLAlchemy's generic compiler and emitted SQL-standard TIME. CrateDB has no storable time-of-day type: plain TIME doesn't exist, and TIME WITH TIME ZONE (TIMETZ) is literal/cast-only ("does not support storage"). sa.Date/sa.DateTime worked only because they already had overrides mapping to TIMESTAMP.

Closes #206.

Fix

Storing time-of-day as a STRING in ISO 8601 format — the same convention the crate driver already uses for datetime.time (see crate/crate-python#696):

A datetime.time now round-trips intact, including tz-aware values.

Tests

• tests/create_table_test.py: DDL renders STRING instead of TIME
• tests/datetime_test.py: live round-trip of a datetime.time

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