Name

xs:dateTime

Synopsis

The xs:dateTime type represents a specific moment in history, such as 3:32 P.M., September 26, 2003. Date-times are written in the form CCYY - MM - DD T hh:mm:ss. For example, 3:32 P.M., September 26, 2003 is written as 2003-09-26T15:32:00. Decimal fractions of a second can be indicated by appending a period and any number of digits after the seconds. Dates in the far future and distant past can be written with more than four digits in the year, but at least four digits are required. Dates before year 1 are written with a preceding minus sign. (There was no year 0.) An optional time zone indicator in the form hh:mm may be suffixed to provide a time zone as an offset from Coordinated Universal Time (Greenwich Mean Time, UTC). For example, 2003-09-26T15:32:00-05:00 is 3:32 P.M., September 26, 2003 in the U.S. Eastern time zone. A Z can be used instead to indicate UTC. These are all valid values of type xs:dateTime:

Constraining facets that apply to xs:dateTime are minInclusive, maxInclusive, minExclusive, maxExclusive, pattern, enumeration, and whiteSpace. Note, however, that when the time zone is not specified, it's not always possible to unambiguously determine whether one time falls after another.