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Asked: 2026-05-30T14:56:31+00:00

I’m looking to output a timestamp of when content was published within Umbraco, in

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I’m looking to output a timestamp of when content was published within Umbraco, in the correct format required by the HTML5 <time> element.

For example:

<time datetime="2012-02-28T20:00+00:00" pubdate>February 28, 2012</time>

Is there a way to achieve this within Umbraco or with Razor? I know with PHP there’s a particular “W3C” way of outputting timestamps: http://goo.gl/sEFsh.

More info on correct formatting of this element can be found here: http://html5doctor.com/the-time-element/

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  1. Editorial Team

    It looks like the best option for this might be to use the global “UpdateDate” like this:

    <time datetime="@Model.UpdateDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTH:mmzzz")" pubdate>
    @Model.UpdateDate.ToLongDateString()
</time>

    Seems to output the desired format and the date published rather than the current date. Can anyone see any issues with this solution?

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