The Block Storage Service uses an ISO-8601 compliant date format for the display and consumption of date time values.
Example 2.3. DB service date and time format
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ
May 19th, 2011 at 8:07:08 AM, GMT-5 has the following format:
2011-05-19T08:07:08-05:00
The following table describes the date time format codes:
| Code | Description |
| yyyy | Four digit year |
| MM | Two digit month |
| dd | Two digit day of month |
| T | Separator for date time |
| HH | Two digit hour of day (00-23) |
| mm | Two digit minutes of hour |
| ss | Two digit seconds of the minute |
| SSS | Three digit milliseconds of the second |
| Z | RFC-822 timezone |
