About Date and Time Formats

The RESTful Web Service SDKs support dateTime data of the following format:

yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss(zzzzzz)

Where:

Character Description
yyyy A four digit that represents the year
- Separators between parts of the date portion
First mm A two-digit numeral that represents the month
dd A two-digit numeral that represents the day
T A separator indicating that time-of-day follows
hh A two-digit numeral that represents the hour
: A separator between parts of the time-of-day portion
Second mm A two-digit numeral that represents the minute
tt A two-integer-digit numeral that represents the whole seconds
zzzzzz or offset zzzzzz (if present) represents the timezone according to the W3C recommendation. If zzzzzzz is not specified, the time specified is GMT. You can include an offset, for example, -5:00 corresponds to Central Daylight Savings Time as well as Eastern Standard Time in the U.S.

Example

2002-10-10T12:00:00-05:00 (noon on 10 October 2002, Central Daylight Savings Time as well as Eastern Standard Time in the U.S.)

2002-10-10T12:00:00Z (equivalent date time with the timezone specified)