Date and time format#

The RackConnect service uses an ISO-8601 compliant date format for the display and consumption of date and time values.

The system time is expressed as UTC.

Example: Date and time format

yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ

For example, the UTC-5 format for May 19, 2015 at 8:07:08 a.m. is

2015-05-19T08:07:08-05:00

Date and time format codes

yyyy

Four digit year

MM

Two digit month

DD

Two digit day

T

Separator for date/time

HH

Two digit hour (00-23)

mm

Two digit minute

ss

Two digit second

Z

RFC 8601 timezone (offset from GMT). If Z is not replaced with the offset from GMT, it indicates a 00:00 offset.