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---
title: Datetimes (Datetime)
---
Datetime validator parses using the python-dateutil library and
returns a python datetime object.
Example yaml_snippet:
```yaml
date: 2016-10-22
datetime1: 2016-10-22T14:23:12+00:00
datetime2: 2016-10-22T14:23:12Z
datetime3: 20161022T142312Z
```
```python
from strictyaml import Map, Datetime, YAMLValidationError, load, as_document
from collections import OrderedDict
from dateutil.tz.tz import tzutc
from datetime import datetime
from ensure import Ensure
schema = Map({
"date": Datetime(),
"datetime1": Datetime(),
"datetime2": Datetime(),
"datetime3": Datetime(),
})
equivalent_data = OrderedDict([
("date", datetime(2016, 10, 22, 0, 0)),
("datetime1", datetime(2016, 10, 22, 14, 23, 12, tzinfo=tzutc())),
("datetime2", datetime(2016, 10, 22, 14, 23, 12, tzinfo=tzutc())),
("datetime3", datetime(2016, 10, 22, 14, 23, 12, tzinfo=tzutc())),
])
```
Each of the four datetimes are valid and parsed:
```python
Ensure(load(yaml_snippet, schema)).equals(equivalent_data)
```
.text still returns the original text:
```python
Ensure(load(yaml_snippet, schema)["date"].text).equals("2016-10-22")
```
Non datetimes raise an exception:
```yaml
date: 1
datetime1: รข
datetime2: b
datetime3: c
```
```python
load(yaml_snippet, schema)
```
```python
strictyaml.exceptions.YAMLValidationError:
when expecting a datetime
found arbitrary text
in "<unicode string>", line 2, column 1:
datetime1: "\xE2"
^ (line: 2)
```
Datetime objects serialize directly to ISO-8601 format YAML strings:
```python
print(as_document(equivalent_data, schema).as_yaml())
```
```yaml
date: 2016-10-22T00:00:00
datetime1: 2016-10-22T14:23:12+00:00
datetime2: 2016-10-22T14:23:12+00:00
datetime3: 2016-10-22T14:23:12+00:00
```
Valid datetime strings serialize to YAML:
```python
print(as_document({"a": "2016-10-22"}, Map({"a": Datetime()})).as_yaml())
```
```yaml
a: 2016-10-22
```
Serializing invalid datetime string raises exception:
```python
as_document({"a": "x"}, Map({"a": Datetime()}))
```
```python
strictyaml.exceptions.YAMLSerializationError:
expected a datetime, got 'x'
```
Serializing non-string and non-datetime object raises exception:
```python
as_document({"a": 55}, Map({"a": Datetime()}))
```
```python
strictyaml.exceptions.YAMLSerializationError:
expected a datetime, got '55' of type 'int'
```
!!! note "Executable specification"
Documentation automatically generated from
<a href="https://github.com/crdoconnor/strictyaml/blob/master/hitch/story/datetime.story">datetime.story
storytests.
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