For the display and consumption of date and time values, Rackspace Cloud services use a date format that complies with ISO 8601.
The system time is expressed as UTC.
Example: Date and time format
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ
For example, the UTC-5 format for May 19, 2014 at 8:07:08 a.m. is
2014-05-19T08:07:08-05:00
Date and time format codes
| yyyy | Four digit year |
|---|---|
| MM | Two digit month |
| DD | Two digit day |
| T | Separator for date/time |
| HH | Two digit hour (00-23) |
| mm | Two digit minute |
| ss | Two digit second |
| Z | RFC 8601 timezone (offset from GMT). If Z is not replaced with the offset from GMT, it indicates a 00:00 offset. |