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Asked: 2026-06-10T17:29:59+00:00

I was reading documentation of an API and it uses this timestamp format: 2012-08-29T15:31:23Z

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I was reading documentation of an API and it uses this timestamp format:

2012-08-29T15:31:23Z

I have never seen one with T and Z positioned like that so I had to create a custom function to product this format.

Is there a built-in PHP method of producing a timestamp in this format or a standard?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is universal time …. it is the date then a time separator and time is put into zulu time which is the same as UTC

    You are able to do a simple print strtotime('2012-08-29T15:31:23Z'); to change it to a unix timestamp

    FROM W3

    Example

    1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00 corresponds to November 5, 1994, 8:15:30 am, US Eastern Standard Time.

    1994-11-05T13:15:30Z corresponds to the same instant.

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