GeneralizedTime Type

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The GeneralizedTime type provides date and time, as GeneralizedTime (year includes century numbers), in the format:
YYYYMMDDHH
[
MM
[
SS
]] [
.f
]Z
GMT date and time (to hours, minutes or seconds); with optional fractional time units to any significance (hours, minutes or seconds); Z indicates GMT time
YYYYMMDDHH
[
MM
[
SS
]] [
.f
][
sHHMM
]
Local date and time (to hours, minutes or seconds); with optional fractional time units to any significance (hours, minutes or seconds); with signed zone offset from GMT time (
s
= + or -)

External Form -- Input and Output

This can be any valid data as shown above.

Local Form and Behavior

On input data is stored as supplied. If the component has a fixed length, a short input string is padded with blanks. Truncation is not allowed.

Named Values

Named values are not applicable to the GeneralizedTime type.

Constraints

Constraints are not applicable to the GeneralizedTime type.