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Date/Time (UTC) ISO formatted This standard is based on ISO 8601:2004(E) and takes on any of the following forms: 2009-08-30T09:05:00[.xx] (local time) 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]Z (UTC time) 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]-05:00 The dashes and the colons can be dropped. The T can also be dropped "by mutual agreement", but one needs the trailing Z if the time is UTC.
Sample ISO_datetime_utc: 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]Z (UTC time)
Format: YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS[.xx]Z (UTC time)
Date and time (UTC) variable recorded at the end of sampling time in ISO compliant format. Values were added from the intermediate US GEOTRACES master file (see Processing Description). This standard is based on ISO 8601:2004(E) and takes on the following form: 2009-08-30T14:05:00[.xx]Z (UTC time)