Added function to ping a host

Lib/site-packages/pip/_internal/utils/datetime.py

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+"""For when pip wants to check the date or time.
+"""
+
+import datetime
+
+
+def today_is_later_than(year: int, month: int, day: int) -> bool:
+    today = datetime.date.today()
+    given = datetime.date(year, month, day)
+
+    return today > given