Date and Time Formats

All dates and times in requests are in UTC format defined by RFC3339/ISO8601. The format is YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ, which is described in the following table:

Item Description Type
YYYY The year variable
MM The month variable
DD The day variable
T A separator indicating that what follows is a time fixed
HH The two digits of the hour - 00 (for midnight) to 23 (for 11 pm) variable
MM The two digits of the minute variable
SS The two digits of the second variable
Z Indicates the time is in UTC format fixed

For example, 2016-01-18T08:15:30Z is 8:15:30 am on January 18, 2016.