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Asked: 2026-06-06T16:29:32+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Is there a standard date/time format that can be passed on a

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Is there a standard date/time format that can be passed on a URL?

What is a good way for a RESTful resource to accept a datetime object? Specifically, I’m not sure what is a good way to represent the date and time as a query argument in the URL.

I was thinking of doing something like this:

GET /Calls?start=YYYY-MM-DD_HH:MM:SS

I’m using Javascript/jQuery on the Client and Python on the back end, so ideally it would be a format that could easily be written in Javascript and read in Python.

Thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use the ISO 8601 standard to encode the time argument as a string. It’s readable for humans and supported by tons of libraries across many languages.

    I’d recommend against using Unix time. Your sysadmins will thank you when they’re asked to crawl or parse your web server logs for API calls. Using ISO 8601 will avoid them having to build a secondary step into that process to convert the Unix time number into something that actual humans have to understand.

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