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RFC 3339 is an IETF standard defining a universal date and time format. RFC 3339 is a profile of ISO 8601 which seeks to remove certain ambiguities in date formats, such as 2-digit versus 4-digit years and the order of month and day.

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• RFC 3339 - Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps - IETF

Example formats (or think of it as a quick reference on how to write/generate RFC3339 compatible dates/times):

 * DATE ONLY: 2006-06-30
  Which represents June, 30th of 2006 (AD)
 DATE & TIME
 * 1976-07-17T23:20:50.05Z
 Which represents July 17th, 1976 at 23 hours, 20 minutes and 50.05 seconds in UTC.
 * 1976-07-17T12:30:05-07:00
  Which represents July 17, 1976  at 12 hours 30 minutes and 5 seconds in Pacific Standard Time (-7 hrs UTC).