How to resolve the error of salesforce date literals?

To resolve the error of salesforce date literals -

• CreatedDate is a datetime field so I guess you would need to specify the time component.
  
• Can you do something like where you just append the time portion to be 12 am by default.
  

WHERE CreatedDate > 2005-10-08T00:00:00Z

Or you can use Date Literals like
WHERE CreatedDate > YESTERDAY
For more on date formats and more literal values see,

https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.soql_sosl.meta/soql_sosl/sforce_api_calls_soql_select_dateformats.htm