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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 normalize_date(self, test_date):
        ''' Same function as zipline.finance.trading.py'''
        test_date = pd.Timestamp(test_date, tz='UTC')
        return pd.tseries.tools.normalize_date(test_date)