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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def date(self):
 """ Return the mail date in datetime.datetime format and UTC. """

        date = self.message.get('date')
        conv = None

        try:
            conv, _ = convert_mail_date(date)
        finally:
            return conv