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Parameter: BTL_ISO_DateTime_UTC

Dataset: 
GT10 - DOC
Parameter: 
ISO_DateTime_UTC
Master parameters information
Short Name:
 ISO_DateTime_UTC
Short Description:
 ISO_DateTime_UTC
Official Name:
 ISO_DateTime_UTC
No Data Value:
 nd
Description:
 

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)

Dataset-parameters information
Supplied Name: 
BTL_ISO_DateTime_UTC
Supplied Units: 
yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SS'Z'
Conversion Necessary: 
no
No Data Value: 
nd
Description: 

Date and time (UTC) variable recorded at the bottle 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)

format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[.xx][+/-TZ]

Dataset parameter types [rank]
Primary ISODateTime variable