UK Government Data Standards Catalogue

Metadata Value
Data Element

Time

Is Part Of
Temporal
Has Parts  
Version 2.0 
Status Release 
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Date Agreed 1 January 2002

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Name

Time

Description The time (using a 24 hour clock) at which an event, or the action in an event, takes place.
Business Format 8 characters expressed as HH:MM:SS (H=hours, M=minutes, S=seconds)
Element Type Data Type
XML Schema
Validations
1. All times must be expressed in the 24 hour clock format, e.g. one minute past midnight is 00:01:00.
2. Values of any element less than 10 should be entered with a zero in the first position.
Value
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 Time, e.g. hours and minutes only.
  • All times for UK transactions/events will be assumed to be GMT.