UTC Time

UTC (also know as ISO 8601) is a standard for representing time values.

The format is:

YYYY-MM-DD + “T” + HH:MM:SS + “+ or –“ + timezone offset

For example,

2006-08-12T15:29:02-05:00

where:

UTC Format
   
2006 Year (2006 in this example).
08 Month (August in this example).
12 Day of the month (12 in this example).
T Separator between date and time.
HH Hour in 24-hour format (15 in this example).
MM Minutes (29 in this example)
SS Seconds (02 in this example).
- Indicates offset from GMT. (Minus in this example).
05 Numbers of hours offset from GMT. (05 in this example).
00 Number of seconds offset from GMT. (0 in this example).