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.

Table A-1  Symbols used in time-of-day formats

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.