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-7.3 Time of day items
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-
-A "time of day item" in date strings specifies the time on a given day.
-Here are some examples, all of which represent the same time:
-
- 20:02:00.000000
- 20:02
- 8:02pm
- 20:02-0500 # In EST (U.S. Eastern Standard Time).
-
- More generally, the time of day may be given as
-`HOUR:MINUTE:SECOND', where HOUR is a number between 0 and 23, MINUTE
-is a number between 0 and 59, and SECOND is a number between 0 and 59
-possibly followed by `.' or `,' and a fraction containing one or more
-digits. Alternatively, `:SECOND' can be omitted, in which case it is
-taken to be zero. On the rare hosts that support leap seconds, SECOND
-may be 60.
-
- If the time is followed by `am' or `pm' (or `a.m.' or `p.m.'), HOUR
-is restricted to run from 1 to 12, and `:MINUTE' may be omitted (taken
-to be zero). `am' indicates the first half of the day, `pm' indicates
-the second half of the day. In this notation, 12 is the predecessor of
-1: midnight is `12am' while noon is `12pm'. (This is the zero-oriented
-interpretation of `12am' and `12pm', as opposed to the old tradition
-derived from Latin which uses `12m' for noon and `12pm' for midnight.)
-
- The time may alternatively be followed by a time zone correction,
-expressed as `SHHMM', where S is `+' or `-', HH is a number of zone
-hours and MM is a number of zone minutes. The zone minutes term, MM,
-may be omitted, in which case the one- or two-digit correction is
-interpreted as a number of hours. You can also separate HH from MM
-with a colon. When a time zone correction is given this way, it forces
-interpretation of the time relative to Coordinated Universal Time
-(UTC), overriding any previous specification for the time zone or the
-local time zone. For example, `+0530' and `+05:30' both stand for the
-time zone 5.5 hours ahead of UTC (e.g., India). This is the best way to
-specify a time zone correction by fractional parts of an hour. The
-maximum zone correction is 24 hours.
-
- Either `am'/`pm' or a time zone correction may be specified, but not
-both.
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-7.4 Time zone items
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-
-A "time zone item" specifies an international time zone, indicated by a
-small set of letters, e.g., `UTC' or `Z' for Coordinated Universal
-Time. Any included periods are ignored. By following a
-non-daylight-saving time zone by the string `DST' in a separate word
-(that is, separated by some white space), the corresponding daylight
-saving time zone may be specified. Alternatively, a
-non-daylight-saving time zone can be followed by a time zone
-correction, to add the two values. This is normally done only for
-`UTC'; for example, `UTC+05:30' is equivalent to `+05:30'.
-
- Time zone items other than `UTC' and `Z' are obsolescent and are not
-recommended, because they are ambiguous; for example, `EST' has a
-different meaning in Australia than in the United States. Instead,
-it's better to use unambiguous numeric time zone corrections like
-`-0500', as described in the previous section.
-
- If neither a time zone item nor a time zone correction is supplied,
-time stamps are interpreted using the rules of the default time zone
-(*note Specifying time zone rules::).
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-7.5 Combined date and time of day items
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-
-The ISO 8601 date and time of day extended format consists of an ISO
-8601 date, a `T' character separator, and an ISO 8601 time of day.
-This format is also recognized if the `T' is replaced by a space.
-
- In this format, the time of day should use 24-hour notation.
-Fractional seconds are allowed, with either comma or period preceding
-the fraction. ISO 8601 fractional minutes and hours are not supported.
-Typically, hosts support nanosecond timestamp resolution; excess
-precision is silently discarded.
-
- Here are some examples:
-
- 2012-09-24T20:02:00.052-0500
- 2012-12-31T23:59:59,999999999+1100
- 1970-01-01 00:00Z
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-7.6 Day of week items
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-
-The explicit mention of a day of the week will forward the date (only
-if necessary) to reach that day of the week in the future.
-
- Days of the week may be spelled out in full: `Sunday', `Monday',
-`Tuesday', `Wednesday', `Thursday', `Friday' or `Saturday'. Days may
-be abbreviated to their first three letters, optionally followed by a
-period. The special abbreviations `Tues' for `Tuesday', `Wednes' for
-`Wednesday' and `Thur' or `Thurs' for `Thursday' are also allowed.
-
- A number may precede a day of the week item to move forward
-supplementary weeks. It is best used in expression like `third
-monday'. In this context, `last DAY' or `next DAY' is also acceptable;
-they move one week before or after the day that DAY by itself would
-represent.
-
- A comma following a day of the week item is ignored.
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