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whitebear
whitebear

Reputation: 12423

What the meaning of T Z for date?

I am using api it require date as this format

2020-03-01T00:00:00Z

I googled around and couldn't under stand what the T Z means.

For Now I made this string with this code by python

dt_now.strftime('%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ')

However it looks a bit awkward and I am not sure if it is correct.

Is there any good way for python datetime??

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4884

Answers (1)

Marcin Orlowski
Marcin Orlowski

Reputation: 75629

This looks like ISO 8601 time format. The T stands for time and is used as separator, while Z determines time offset and stands for Zulu which is commonly used, military originated, name alias for UTC+0 offset. For other offsets you need to specify it as HH:MM, with + or - respectively. So the Z is therefore equivalent of writing +00:00.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 for more info.

Upvotes: 5

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