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What is an API date?
All dates in the API are in unix epoch time, which is the number of seconds since midnight UTC January 1st, 1970. The API does not accept or return fractional times, everything should be rounded to the nearest whole second. The fromdate and todate parameters are accepted by many methods, and are always dates.
What Data type is used for date?
Date and Time data types
| Data type | Format | Accuracy |
|---|---|---|
| date | YYYY-MM-DD | 1 day |
| smalldatetime | YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss | 1 minute |
| datetime | YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.nnn] | 0.00333 second |
| datetime2 | YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss[.nnnnnnn] | 100 nanoseconds |
What is timestamp API?
public class Timestamp extends Date. A thin wrapper around java. util. Date that allows the JDBC API to identify this as an SQL TIMESTAMP value. It adds the ability to hold the SQL TIMESTAMP fractional seconds value, by allowing the specification of fractional seconds to a precision of nanoseconds.
What is firestore timestamp?
firestore. Timestamp. A Timestamp represents a point in time independent of any time zone or calendar, represented as seconds and fractions of seconds at nanosecond resolution in UTC Epoch time. It is encoded using the Proleptic Gregorian Calendar which extends the Gregorian calendar backwards to year one.
How to render a datetime in a specific format?
In your Views folder create a folder named “DisplayTemplates” either under your controller specific views folder, or under “Shared” folder (these work similar to partials). Inside create a file named DateTime.cshtml that takes DateTime as the @model and code how you want to render your date:
What’s the recommended date format for a rest get API?
Recommended date format for REST GET API. What’s the recommended timestamp format for a REST GET API like this: I think the actual date format should be ISO 8601 format, such as YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ for UTC time. Should we use the ISO 8601 version without hyphens and colons, such as:
What happens to the body of a request in web API?
Notice that the request body contains the form data, formatted as name/value pairs. Web API automatically converts the name/value pairs into an instance of the Update class. When a user submits a form, the browser navigates away from the current page and renders the body of the response message.
What are the 5 laws of API dates and times?
Check this article for the 5 laws of API dates and times HERE: More info in the docs. RFC6690 – Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Link Format Does not explicitly state what Date format should be however in section 2. Link Format it points to RFC 3986. This implies that recommendation for date type in RFC 3986 should be used.