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I need to generate a MessageTime for a xml based api. In the example request file, they are using the following:
<MessageTime>2001-12-17T09:30:47-05:00</MessageTime>
What is the format of this datetime string? I want to generate it using date() method or DateTime class.
This is what I tried so far: I am in the UK, so i am using the offset 00:00
var_dump(date('Y-m-d\TH:i:s').'-00:00')
// Output: 2014-05-26T20:11:45-00:00
Is this correct?
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ISO 8601 date (added in PHP 5):
date('c');
Or using a constant:
date(DateTime::ISO8601);
You can also utilize O for the "difference to Greenwich time (GMT) in hours":
date('Y-m-d\TH:i:sO');