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datetime="
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD
"
Specifies the date and time the change was made. Dates and times follow the format
shown here, where
YYYY
is the four-digit year,
MM
is the two-digit month,
DD
is the day,
hh
is the hour (00 through 23),
mm
is the minute (00 through 59), and
ss
is the second
(00 through 59). TZD stands for Time Zone Designator, and its value can be
Z
(to indic-
ate UTC, Coordinated Universal Time), an indication of the number of hours and minutes
ahead of UTC (such as +03:00), or an indication of the number of hours and minutes be-
hind UTC (such as −02:20).
This is the standard format for date and time values in HTML. For more information, see
Example
Chief Executive Officer:
<del
title="retired" datetime=
"2013-05-01T14:09:00EDT"
>
Peter Pan
</del>
<ins>Pippi
Longstocking</ins>
