.. _date:

Date
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Dates follow the encoding scheme defined in the `W3CDTF profile of ISO 8601 <https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime>`_.

Example
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    1994-11-05
    1994-11-05T08:15:30-05:00

Corresponds to:

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    November 5, 1994
    November 5, 1994, 8:15:30 am, US Eastern Standard Time.