# Date and Time

All references to Date, Time and Timestamp will use the format required by the OTA specification, which follows ISO standard 8601:

| Date      | The Date will be the Calendar Date format represented as \[YYYY]---\[MM]---\[DD] where \[YYYY] indicates a four-digit year, 0000 through 9999, \[MM] indicates a two-digit month of the year, 01 through 12, and \[DD] indicates a two-digit day of that month, 01 through 31. Example: 2006---01---27                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| --------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Time      | <p>The Time will be the 24---hour clock (extended format) plus a time zone designator represented as \[hh]:\[mm]:\[ss]\[±hh: mm] where \[hh] refers to a zero-padded hour between 00 and 24    (where 24 is only used to notate midnight at the end of a calendar day), \[mm] refers to a minute between 00 and 59, \[ss] refers to a second between 00 and 59, ±\[hh]:\[mm] refers to the difference in hours and minutes greater than or less than UTC (Coordinated Universal Time).  Example: 22:59:01+03:00</p><p><br></p> |
| Timestamp | The Timestamp will be a combination of date and time (without a time zone designator) represented as \[YYYY]---\[MM]---\[DD]T\[hh]:\[mm]:\[ss] where the time designator \[T] is used to show the start of the time component.   Example: 2006---01---27T17:59:01                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |


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