Date Formats
Time and date formats in Tenable Vulnerability Management API messages can be in the following formats:
Abbreviated Timestamp
The abbreviated timestamp is formatted as follows:
YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS
This format consists of the following elements:
| Element | Description | # of Digits | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| YYYY | Year | 4 | 2018 |
| MM | Month | 2 | 05 |
| DD | Day | 2 | 31 |
| T | Placeholder between date and time | -- | T |
| HH | Hour in military time | 2 | 16 |
| MM | Minute | 2 | 00 |
| SS | Second | 2 | 00 |
Example
20181017T130000
Standard Timestamp
The standard timestamp follows the ISO-8601 standard.
The standard timestamp contains all the elements of the abbreviated timestamp, but contains additional punctuation for human readability and includes a timezone element, as follows:
YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.mssZ
This format consists of the following elements:
| Element | Description | # of Digits | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| YYYY | Year | 4 | 2018 |
| MM | Month | 2 | 05 |
| DD | Day | 2 | 31 |
| T | Placeholder between date and time | -- | T |
| HH | Hour in military time | 2 | 16 |
| MM | Minute | 2 | 00 |
| SS | Second | 2 | 00 |
| mss | Milliseconds | 3 | 535 |
| Z | Code indicating that the timestamp uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Zulu time | 1 | Z |
Example
2017-12-31T20:40:44.535Z
Unix Timestamp
The single signed number that represents the date and time in Unix time.
Example
1540944000
Updated 3 days ago