Name
DATETIME — NN n/a IE n/a HTML 4
Synopsis
DATETIME=”datetimeString"
Optional
The date and time the deletion was made. This information is most
likely to be inserted into a document with an HTML authoring tool
designed to track content insertions and deletions. Data from this
attribute can be recalled later as an audit trail to changes of the
document. There can be only one DATETIME
attribute
value associated with a given DEL
element.
Example
<DEL DATETIME="1998-09-11T20:03:32-08:00">SomeDeleteTextHere
</DEL>
Value
The DATETIME
attribute requires a value in a
special date-time format that conveys information about the date and
time in such a way that the exact moment can be deduced from any time
zone around the world. Syntax for the format is as follows:
yyyy
-MM
-dd
Thh
:mm
:ssTZD
-
yyyy
Four-digit year
-
MM
Two-digit month (01 through 12)
-
dd
Two-digit date (01 through 31)
-
T
Uppercase “T” to separate date from time
-
hh
Two-digit hour in 24-hour time (00 through 23)
-
mm
Two-digit minute (00 through 59)
-
ss
Two-digit second (00 through 59)
-
TZD
Time Zone Designator
There are two formats for the Time Zone Designator. The first is
simply the uppercase letter “Z”, which stands for UTC
(Coordinated Universal Time—also called “Zulu”).
The other format indicates the offset from UTC that the time shown in
hh:mm:ss
represents. This time offset
consists of a plus or minus symbol and another pair of
hh:mm
values. For time zones west of Greenwich Mean Time (which, for all practical purposes is the same as UTC), ...
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