diff --git a/src/utils/index.js b/src/utils/index.js
index a2367cb..fc4de8a 100644
--- a/src/utils/index.js
+++ b/src/utils/index.js
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-export const isObject = o => o != null && typeof o === 'object';
+export const isDate = d => d instanceof Date;
 export const isEmpty = o => Object.keys(o).length === 0;
+export const isObject = o => o != null && typeof o === 'object';
diff --git a/src/utils/index.spec.js b/src/utils/index.spec.js
index bc0ae25..4bf65dc 100644
--- a/src/utils/index.spec.js
+++ b/src/utils/index.spec.js
@@ -1,10 +1,36 @@
 import { expect } from 'chai';
 import forEach from 'mocha-each';
 
-import { isEmpty, isObject } from './';
+import { isDate, isEmpty, isObject } from './';
 
 describe('utils', () => {
 
+  describe('.isDate', () => {
+    forEach([
+      [new Date()],
+      [new Date('2016')],
+      [new Date('2016-01')],
+      [new Date('2016-01-01')],
+      [new Date('2016-01-01:14:45:20')],
+      [new Date('Tue Feb 14 2017 14:45:20 GMT+0000 (GMT)')],
+      [new Date('nonsense')],
+    ]).it('returns true when given a date object of %s', (date) => {
+      expect(isDate(date)).to.be.true;
+    });
+
+    forEach([
+      [100],
+      ['100'],
+      [false],
+      [{ a: 100 }],
+      [[100, 101, 102]],
+      [Date.parse('2016')],
+      [Date.now()],
+    ]).it('returns false when not given a date object of %s', (x) => {
+      expect(isDate(x)).to.be.false;
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('.isEmpty', () => {
     describe('returns true', () => {
       it('when given an empty object', () => {