UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

Date

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Date Agreed 1 January 2002

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Date

Description The day, month, year and century, or any combinations of these elements, of an event.
Business Format 10 Characters in the format CCYY-MM-DD
Element Type Data Type
XML Schema
Validations
1. Values less than 10 in the day, month or year elements, should be entered with a zero in the first position.
2. Days must not be greater than 30 in April, June, September and November.
3. Days must not be greater than 28 in February except when 29 is allowed for a leap year.
Values
CCYY should be a valid year number.
MM in Range 01-12.
DD in Range 01-31.
DefaultValue
Owner DTG
Based On XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes W3C Recommendation 02 May 2001.
Verification
Comments
  • See the W3C standard for details of formatting shortened versions of Date, e.g. month and year only.
  • DWP cannot process dates before 1852-02-29.