Great! Now let's learn how to work with dates different from today.

Like today's date, we can create and store dates in variables. To do it, we need to create an object of class `date` with 3 required arguments: year, month, and day. It can be done the next way:

# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object
date(year = year, month = month, day = day)

Please note, that there are 3 and only 3 required arguments. Please note, that zero-padded numbers are not allowed as arguments. You can use either positional or keyword arguments. For example, we can create variable `course_created` and save the date this course was created into it.

# Load class from library
from datetime import date

# Create date object with positional arguments
date(2021, 11, 1)
# Create date object with keyword arguments
date(day = 1, month = 11, year = 2021)

Dates and(or) times are one of the most common things in modern data: often we need to deal with observations containing dates and times. In this course, you will learn about datetime, pytz libraries, and how they help to deal with different formats of dates and times. Also, you will learn how to implement this knowledge to work with dirty or missing date/time values.

In this section, you will learn how to deal with dates in your data. Specifically, you will learn how to create date objects, how to perform arithmetic operations, like difference, how to convert dates into different local formats, and so on.

In this section, you will learn how to deal with data containing not only dates, but also times, or times only.

In this section, you will learn how to apply and adapt timezones to datetime objects and also how to deal with daylight (or summer) time.

In this section, you will learn how to implement acquired knowledge about manipulation with dates and times for different datasets using pandas library. In particular, you will handle with taxi rides dataset in Mexico City, analyzing it, correcting mistakes, and so on.

Creating a Date Object

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