Date and time format

The service uses an ISO 8601 compliant date format for the display and consumption of date and time values. The system time is expressed as UTC.

Service date and time format

YYYY-MM-DD'T'hh:mm:ssZ

For example, May 19, 2016 at 8:07:08 AM, GMT-5 would have the following UTC-5 format:

2016-05-19T08:07:08-05:00

The following table describes the date and time format codes.

Date and time format codes

Code

Description

YYYY

Four-digit year

MM

Two-digit month

DD

Two-digit day

T

Separator for date and time

hh

Two-digit hour (00-23)

mm

Two-digit minute

ss

Two-digit second

Z

Time zone offset from UTC. If Z is not replaced with the offset from UTC, it indicates a 00:00 offset.