Source: Schema.org v30.1 offline vocabulary. Official DateTime definition.
What is DateTime?
A combination of date and time of day in the form [-]CCYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss[Z|(+|-)hh:mm] (see Chapter 5.4 of ISO 8601).
DataType guidance: DateTime describes the format or meaning of a value. Use it where a Schema.org property accepts this value type. See the property table below for practical contexts.
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Properties that accept DateTime values (53)
| Property | On types | Description |
|---|---|---|
| arrivalTime | Trip | The expected arrival time. |
| auditDate | Certification | Date when a certification was last audited. See also [gs1:certificationAuditDate](https://www.gs1.org/voc/certificationAuditDate). |
| availabilityEnds | ActionAccessSpecification or Demand or Offer | The end of the availability of the product or service included in the offer. |
| availabilityStarts | ActionAccessSpecification or Demand or Offer | The beginning of the availability of the product or service included in the offer. |
| availableFrom | DeliveryEvent | When the item is available for pickup from the store, locker, etc. |
| availableThrough | DeliveryEvent | After this date, the item will no longer be available for pickup. |
| bookingTime | Reservation | The date and time the reservation was booked. |
| checkinTime | LodgingBusiness or LodgingReservation | The earliest someone may check into a lodging establishment. |
| checkoutTime | LodgingBusiness or LodgingReservation | The latest someone may check out of a lodging establishment. |
| commentTime | UserComments | The time at which the UserComment was made. |
| contentReferenceTime | CreativeWork | The specific time described by a creative work, for works (e.g. articles, video objects etc.) that emphasise a particular moment within an Event. |
| coverageEndTime | LiveBlogPosting | The time when the live blog will stop covering the Event. Note that coverage may continue after the Event concludes. |
| coverageStartTime | LiveBlogPosting | The time when the live blog will begin covering the Event. Note that coverage may begin before the Event's start time. The LiveBlogPosting may also be created before coverage begins. |
| cvdCollectionDate | CDCPMDRecord | collectiondate - Date for which patient counts are reported. |
| datasetTimeInterval | Dataset | The range of temporal applicability of a dataset, e.g. for a 2011 census dataset, the year 2011 (in ISO 8601 time interval format). |
| dateCreated | CreativeWork or DataFeedItem | The date on which the CreativeWork was created or the item was added to a DataFeed. |
| dateDeleted | DataFeedItem | The datetime the item was removed from the DataFeed. |
| dateIssued | Ticket | The date the ticket was issued. |
| dateModified | CreativeWork or DataFeedItem | The date on which the CreativeWork was most recently modified or when the item's entry was modified within a DataFeed. |
| datePosted | CDCPMDRecord or JobPosting or RealEstateListing or SpecialAnnouncement | Publication date of an online listing. |
| datePublished | Certification or CreativeWork | Date of first publication or broadcast. For example the date a [[CreativeWork]] was broadcast or a [[Certification]] was issued. |
| dateRead | Message | The date/time at which the message has been read by the recipient if a single recipient exists. |
| dateReceived | Message | The date/time the message was received if a single recipient exists. |
| dateSent | Message | The date/time at which the message was sent. |
| departureTime | Trip | The expected departure time. |
| doorTime | Event | The time admission will commence. |
| dropoffTime | RentalCarReservation | When a rental car can be dropped off. |
| endDate | CreativeWorkSeason or CreativeWorkSeries or DatedMoneySpecification or EducationalOccupationalProgram or Event or MerchantReturnPolicySeasonalOverride or Role or Schedule | The end date and time of the item (in [ISO 8601 date format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)). |
| endTime | Action or FoodEstablishmentReservation or InteractionCounter or MediaObject or Schedule | The endTime of something. For a reserved event or service (e.g. FoodEstablishmentReservation), the time that it is expected to end. For actions that span a period of time, when the action was performed. E.g. John wrote a book from January to *December*. For media, including audio and video, it's the time offset of the end of a clip within a larger file.\n\nNote that Event uses startDate/endDate instead of startTime/endTime, even when describing dates with times. This situation may be clarified in future revisions. |
| exceptDate | Schedule | Defines a [[Date]] or [[DateTime]] during which a scheduled [[Event]] will not take place. The property allows exceptions to a [[Schedule]] to be specified. If an exception is specified as a [[DateTime]] then only the event that would have started at that specific date and time should be excluded from the schedule. If an exception is specified as a [[Date]] then any event that is scheduled for that 24 hour period should be excluded from the schedule. This allows a whole day to be excluded from the schedule without having to itemise every scheduled event. |
| expectedArrivalFrom | ParcelDelivery | The earliest date the package may arrive. |
| expectedArrivalUntil | ParcelDelivery | The latest date the package may arrive. |
| expires | Certification or CreativeWork | Date the content expires and is no longer useful or available. For example a [[VideoObject]] or [[NewsArticle]] whose availability or relevance is time-limited, a [[ClaimReview]] fact check whose publisher wants to indicate that it may no longer be relevant (or helpful to highlight) after some date, or a [[Certification]] the validity has expired. |
| merchantReturnDays | MerchantReturnPolicy or MerchantReturnPolicySeasonalOverride | Specifies either a fixed return date or the number of days (from the delivery date) that a product can be returned. Used when the [[returnPolicyCategory]] property is specified as [[MerchantReturnFiniteReturnWindow]]. |
| modifiedTime | Reservation | The date and time the reservation was modified. |
| observationDate | Observation | The observationDate of an [[Observation]]. |
| orderDate | Order | Date order was placed. |
| ownedFrom | OwnershipInfo | The date and time of obtaining the product. |
| ownedThrough | OwnershipInfo | The date and time of giving up ownership on the product. |
| paymentDue | Invoice or Order | The date that payment is due. |
| paymentDueDate | Invoice or Order | The date that payment is due. |
| pickupTime | RentalCarReservation or TaxiReservation | When a taxi will pick up a passenger or a rental car can be picked up. |
| previousStartDate | Event | Used in conjunction with eventStatus for rescheduled or cancelled events. This property contains the previously scheduled start date. For rescheduled events, the startDate property should be used for the newly scheduled start date. In the (rare) case of an event that has been postponed and rescheduled multiple times, this field may be repeated. |
| scheduledTime | PlanAction | The time the object is scheduled to. |
| startDate | CreativeWorkSeason or CreativeWorkSeries or DatedMoneySpecification or EducationalOccupationalProgram or Event or MerchantReturnPolicySeasonalOverride or Role or Schedule | The start date and time of the item (in [ISO 8601 date format](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)). |
| startTime | Action or FoodEstablishmentReservation or InteractionCounter or MediaObject or Schedule | The startTime of something. For a reserved event or service (e.g. FoodEstablishmentReservation), the time that it is expected to start. For actions that span a period of time, when the action was performed. E.g. John wrote a book from *January* to December. For media, including audio and video, it's the time offset of the start of a clip within a larger file.\n\nNote that Event uses startDate/endDate instead of startTime/endTime, even when describing dates with times. This situation may be clarified in future revisions. |
| temporal | CreativeWork | The "temporal" property can be used in cases where more specific properties (e.g. [[temporalCoverage]], [[dateCreated]], [[dateModified]], [[datePublished]]) are not known to be appropriate. |
| temporalCoverage | CreativeWork | The temporalCoverage of a CreativeWork indicates the period that the content applies to, i.e. that it describes, either as a DateTime or as a textual string indicating a time period in [ISO 8601 time interval format](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Time_intervals). In the case of a Dataset it will typically indicate the relevant time period in a precise notation (e.g. for a 2011 census dataset, the year 2011 would be written "2011/2012"). Other forms of content, e.g. ScholarlyArticle, Book, TVSeries or TVEpisode, may indicate their temporalCoverage in broader terms - textually or via well-known URL. Written works such as books may sometimes have precise temporal coverage too, e.g. a work set in 1939 - 1945 can be indicated in ISO 8601 interval format format via "1939/1945". Open-ended date ranges can be written with ".." in place of the end date. For example, "2015-11/.." indicates a range beginning in November 2015 and with no specified final date. This is tentative and might be updated in future when ISO 8601 is officially updated. |
| timestamp | InstantaneousEvent | The instant the event occured. |
| uploadDate | MediaObject | Date (including time if available) when this media object was uploaded to this site. |
| validFrom | Certification or Demand or FinancialIncentive or LocationFeatureSpecification or MonetaryAmount or Offer or OpeningHoursSpecification or Permit or PriceSpecification | The date when the item becomes valid. |
| validThrough | Demand or FinancialIncentive or JobPosting or LocationFeatureSpecification or MonetaryAmount or Offer or OpeningHoursSpecification or PriceSpecification | The date after when the item is not valid. For example the end of an offer, salary period, or a period of opening hours. |
| webCheckinTime | Flight | The time when a passenger can check into the flight online. |
Properties directly defined on DateTime (0)
This is a DataType: it is mainly used as a property value, not as a Thing with its own descriptive fields. The table above shows properties that accept DateTime values.
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