DateTime format

The Configuration Data XML Import supports only the ISO 8601 format for dates. For more information about this format, see http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime.

ISO 8601 defines the following ways of handling time zone offsets:

• UTC. Times are expressed in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), with a special UTC designation ("Z").

• Local time. Times are expressed in local time, together with a time zone offset in hours and minutes. A time zone offset of "+hh:mm" indicates that the date/time uses a local time zone that is "hh" hours and "mm" minutes ahead of UTC. A time zone offset of "-hh:mm" indicates that the date/time uses a local time zone that is "hh" hours and "mm" minutes behind UTC.

The following example, from http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime, illustrates the typical date formats that are used in IEE. Both date formats are correct for November 5, 1994, 8:15:30 a.m., U.S. Eastern Time.

• UTC: 1994-11-05T13:15:30Z

• Local Time: 1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00