Time Of Day Data Format
The time-of-day fields used by the Edit Comments chunk (Edit Comments Chunk) and the Information chunk (Information Chunk) are based on the ISO 8601 specification for time-of-day strings, available from http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/CatalogueListPage.CatalogueList. Time-of-day symbols are shown in Table A-1.
Symbol |
Meaning |
---|---|
YYYY |
4-digit year |
MM |
2-digit month (01=January, etc.) |
DD |
2-digit day of month (01 through 31) |
‘T’ |
separator between date and time fragments |
hh |
2-digit hour (00 through 23) (am/pm not allowed) |
mm |
2-digit minute (00 through 59) |
ss |
2-digit second (00 through 59) |
Some example formats are:
- Year
YYYY (
2005
)- Year and month
YYYY-MM (
2005-07
)- Complete date
YYYY-MM-DD (
2005-07-16
)- Complete date plus hours, minutes and seconds
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss (
2005-07-16T19:20:30
)
Note that the CAF specification’s use of this standard does not include fractional seconds.
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