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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 publish_date(self, publish_date):
 """Set Report publish date"""

        self._group_data['publishDate'] = self._utils.format_datetime(
            publish_date, date_format='%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ'
        )