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# Valid Date and DateTime Formats

Specify the right format for `dateTime` and `date` fields.

## dateTime

Use the yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSS+/-HH:mm or yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.SSSZ formats to specify `dateTime` fields.

-   `yyyy` is the four-digit year
-   `MM` is the two-digit month (01-12)
-   `dd` is the two-digit day (01-31)
-   'T' is a separator indicating that time-of-day follows
-   `HH` is the two-digit hour (00-23)
-   `mm` is the two-digit minute (00-59)
-   `ss` is the two-digit seconds (00-59)
-   `SSS` is the optional three-digit milliseconds (000-999)
-   `+/-HH:mm` is the Zulu (UTC) time zone offset
-   'Z' is the reference UTC timezone

When a timezone is added to a UTC `dateTime`, the result is the date and time in that timezone. For example, 2002-10-10T12:00:00+05:00 is 2002-10-10T07:00:00Z and 2002-10-10T00:00:00+05:00 is 2002-10-09T19:00:00Z. See [W3C XML Schema Part 2: DateTime Datatype](http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime).

## date

Use the yyyy-MM-dd format to specify `date` fields.

**note:** Specifying an offset for `date` is not supported.