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```
In [8]: x.to_series().loc[dt.date(2010, 1, 1)]
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
KeyError                                  Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-8-148c4a8380fa> in <module>
----> 1 x.to_series().loc[dt.date(2010, 1, 1)]

~/miniconda3/envs/xarray-py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in __getitem__(self, key)
    877
    878             maybe_callable = com.apply_if_callable(key, self.obj)
--> 879             return self._getitem_axis(maybe_callable, axis=axis)
    880
    881     def _is_scalar_access(self, key: Tuple):

~/miniconda3/envs/xarray-py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _getitem_axis(self, key, axis)
   1108         # fall thru to straight lookup
   1109         self._validate_key(key, axis)
-> 1110         return self._get_label(key, axis=axis)
   1111
   1112     def _get_slice_axis(self, slice_obj: slice, axis: int):

~/miniconda3/envs/xarray-py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/indexing.py in _get_label(self, label, axis)
   1057     def _get_label(self, label, axis: int):
   1058         # GH#5667 this will fail if the label is not present in the axis.
-> 1059         return self.obj.xs(label, axis=axis)
   1060
   1061     def _handle_lowerdim_multi_index_axis0(self, tup: Tuple):

~/miniconda3/envs/xarray-py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/generic.py in xs(self, key, axis, level, drop_level)
   3480             loc, new_index = self.index.get_loc_level(key, drop_level=drop_level)
   3481         else:
-> 3482             loc = self.index.get_loc(key)
   3483
   3484             if isinstance(loc, np.ndarray):

~/miniconda3/envs/xarray-py38/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pandas/core/indexes/datetimes.py in get_loc(self, key, method, tolerance)
    620         else:
    621             # unrecognized type
--> 622             raise KeyError(key)
    623
    624         try:

KeyError: datetime.date(2010, 1, 1)
```

I think it is reasonable to expect a `date` object to work like a date string, but I would suggest fixing this in pandas first (inside `DatetimeIndex.get_loc`), at which point it should automatically work for xarray.","{""total_count"": 0, ""+1"": 0, ""-1"": 0, ""laugh"": 0, ""hooray"": 0, ""confused"": 0, ""heart"": 0, ""rocket"": 0, ""eyes"": 0}",,683657289