What 'T' and 'Z' Means in Date
I Need Some Information About This Date '2015-05-12T00:00:00Z'. What Does It Mean 'T' and 'Z'? Anyone Can Help Me? I Don't Know How They Mean. I Need to...
I need some information about this date '2015-05-12T00:00:00Z'. What does it mean 'T' and 'Z'? Anyone can help me?I don't know how they mean. I need to convert this data in another format
1 Answer
ISO 8601
The ISO 8601 standard defines formats for representing date-time values as text.
- The
Tis just a marker for where the time part begins. - The
Zis an abbreviation of+00:00, meaning UTC (an offset of zero hour-minutes-seconds). Pronounced “Zulu” per military and aviation tradition.
From the Wikipedia article on ISO 8601
A single point in time can be represented by concatenating a complete date expression, the letter
Tas a delimiter, and a valid time expression. For example "2007-04-05T14:30".[...]
If the time is in UTC, add a
Zdirectly after the time without a space.Zis the zone designator for the zero UTC offset. "09:30 UTC" is therefore represented as "09:30Z" or "0930Z". "14:45:15 UTC" would be "14:45:15Z" or "144515Z".
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