4.3.4 Date
Basic Definition | Formal Definition | Description| Example
Basic Definition
- Value Name
- DATE
- Purpose
- This value type is used to identify values that contain a calendar date.
Formal Definition
The value type is defined by the following
notation:
date = date-value
date-value = date-fullyear date-month date-mday
date-fullyear = 4DIGIT
date-month = 2DIGIT ;01-12
date-mday = 2DIGIT ;01-28, 01-29, 01-30, 01-31
;based on month/year
Description
If the property permits, multiple "date" values are specified as a COMMA character (US-ASCII decimal 44) separated list of values. The format for the value type is expressed as the [ISO 8601] complete representation, basic format for a calendar date. The textual format specifies a four-digit year, two-digit month, and two-digit day of the month. There are no separator characters between the year, month and day component text.
No additional content value encoding (i.e., BACKSLASH character encoding) is defined for this value type.
Example
The following represents July 14, 1997: 19970714