What 'T' and 'Z' means in date
ISO 8601
The ISO 8601 standard defines formats for representing date-time values as text.
- The
T
is just a marker for where the time part begins. - The
Z
is an abbreviation of+00:00
, meaning UTC (an offset of zero hour-minutes-seconds). Pronounced “Zulu” per military and aviation tradition.
From the Wikipedia article on ISO 8601
A single point in time can be represented by concatenating a complete date expression, the letter
T
as a delimiter, and a valid time expression. For example "2007-04-05T14:30".[...]
If the time is in UTC, add a
Z
directly after the time without a space.Z
is the zone designator for the zero UTC offset. "09:30 UTC" is therefore represented as "09:30Z" or "0930Z". "14:45:15 UTC" would be "14:45:15Z" or "144515Z".