RFC 3339

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RFC 3339 is an Internet standard that defines a simplified, unambiguous date and time format commonly used in internet protocols and data interchange.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Internet standard
Request for Comments document
date and time format specification
allows fractional seconds separated by a dot
basedOn ISO 8601
category Standards Track
defines ABNF grammar for timestamps
Internet timestamp format
UTC-based timestamps
fractional seconds notation
offset-from-UTC timestamps
rules for date and time normalization
rules for leap second representation
rules for timestamp comparison
simplified ISO 8601 profile
time zone offset notation
timestamp format using +hh:mm or -hh:mm for numeric time zone offsets
timestamp format using the character T as date-time separator
timestamp format using the character Z to indicate UTC
unambiguous date and time representation
disallows ambiguous local times without offset
named time zones
formatExample 2006-01-02T15:04:05+07:00
2006-01-02T15:04:05Z
goal interoperability across internet systems
unambiguous machine-readable timestamps
obsoletes RFC 3339 self-linksurface differs
surface form: RFC 2445 (with respect to timestamp format alignment aspects)
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
requires 2-digit day
2-digit hour
2-digit minute
2-digit month
2-digit second
4-digit year
RFCNumber 3339
status Internet Standard
stream Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
timeScale Coordinated Universal Time
surface form: UTC
timeZoneHandling UTC or fixed numeric offset from UTC
title Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps
updates ISO 8601
surface form: ISO 8601 (by defining a profile)
useCase APIs and web services
JSON data timestamps
XML data timestamps
configuration files
data interchange
internet protocols
logging formats

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ISO 8601 influenced RFC 3339
RFC 3339 obsoletes RFC 3339 self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: RFC 2445 (with respect to timestamp format alignment aspects)