# Does Pumas read Dates?

**URL:** <https://discourse.pumas.ai/t/does-pumas-read-dates/438>\
**Category:** Data read\
**Created:** [November 25, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.pumas.ai/t/does-pumas-read-dates/438 "2020-11-25T15:41:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![sai\_matcha](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pumas.ai/sai_matcha/32/297_2.png) [@sai\_matcha](https://discourse.pumas.ai/u/sai_matcha)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.pumas.ai/t/does-pumas-read-dates/438/1 "2020-11-25T15:41:26Z")

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I just wanted to know whether Pumas will read Dates and time automatically in case of Dosing and observation events.

or do i need to give time =0 for starting event and give other timings accordingly for each event recording.

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**Author:** ![andreasnoack](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.pumas.ai/andreasnoack/32/22_2.png) [@andreasnoack](https://discourse.pumas.ai/u/andreasnoack)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://discourse.pumas.ai/t/does-pumas-read-dates/438/2 "2020-11-25T15:58:07Z")

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We currently don’t support `DateTime` inputs but it is something that we are considering adding support for.

Time doesn’t have to start at zero but we do set t0==0.0 as the default but in most models, it doesn’t matter if the first dose event is then at some time t\>0.