Business Entity Services Guide

10.4

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Formats for Dates and Time in UTC

In the request and response, all dates and times are specified in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), with or without an offset for a specific time zone.

When you specify a date and time in a request body, use one of the formats defined in Date and Time Formats (NOTE-datetime) for ISO specification 8601.

The following guidelines are taken from the NOTE-datetime document:

Type	Syntax	Example
Date: Year	YYYY	1997
Date: Year and month	YYYY-MM	1997-07
Date: Year, month, and day	YYYY-MM-DD	1997-07-16
Date plus hours and minutes	YYYY-MM-DDThh:mmTZD	1997-07-16T19:20+01:00
Date plus hours, minutes, and seconds	YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD	1997-07-16T19:20:30+01:00
Date plus hours, minutes, seconds, and fractional seconds	YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD	1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00