Date/Time Formatting

The VAS Developer API follows the ISO 8601 standard for date/time formatting, providing the calendar date using the year, month, and day, and the time in UTC Coordinated Universal Time, also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) hours, minutes, and seconds using a 24-hour clock. A "T" is used to delimit the date and time:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss in 24-hour UTC time

For instance, the date/time stamp for noon on October 16, 2019 in Tulare, CA (PDT, -7 hours UTC) is:
2019-10-16T19:00+00:00.

NOTE: For this date/time standard, midnight is a special case and may be noted as either the start of a date (00:00:00) or the end of the date (24:00:00). To address this, the VAS Developer API only assigns non-midnight times: 00:00:01 and later, or 23:59:59 and earlier.

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