Date/Time Formats

This section defines the date/time formats for use with the Hotel Ads XML messages and feeds.

Date

Dates are expressed in the following format:

YYYY-MM-DD

Where:

• YYYY: Four-digit year
• MM: Two-digit month
• DD: Two-digit day

For example, "2017-12-31" for December 31st, 2017.

DateTime

DateTime uses the RFC 3339 format:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss.SSS+|-HH:mm[Z]

Where:

• YYYY: Four-digit year
• MM: Two-digit month
• DD: Two-digit day
• T: Separates the date from the time
• HH: Hours
• mm: Minutes
• ss: (Optional) Seconds
• SSS: (Optional) Milliseconds
• +/-: (Optional) Separates the date and time from the timezone offset
• HH:mm: (Optional) Hours and minutes in the timezone offset
• Z: (Optional) Zero offset

For example, "2017-12-31T16:20:00-04:00".

You can also specify "Z" for the timezone offset, which indicates 0 offset.

Time

Time uses the RFC 3339 format:

HH:MM:SS+|-HH:MM[Z]

Where:

• HH: Hours
• MM: Minutes
• SS: (Optional) Seconds
• Z: (Optional) Zero offset

For example, "16:20:00-04:00".

You can optionally add a number of hours and minutes for the UTC offset as either positive ("+") or negative ("-").

You can also specify "Z" for the timezone offset, which indicates 0 offset.