Time dateTime Property

Get the date that a <time> element represents:

var x = document.getElementById("myTime").dateTime;

The result of x will be:

2014-02-14

Definition and Usage

The dateTime property sets or returns the value of the datetime attribute in a <time> element.

The datetime attribute gives the date or time being specified. This attribute is used if no date or time is specified in the element's content.

Note: The datetime attribute does not render as anything special in any of the major browsers.

Note: The <time> element is new in HTML5.

The dateTime property is only supported in Firefox and Opera version 12.

Note: Opera has no longer support for this property, as of version 15.

Return the dateTime property:

timeObject.dateTime

Set the dateTime property:

timeObject.dateTime=YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

Value	Description
YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD	The date or time being specified. Explanation of components: YYYY - year (e.g. 2011) MM - month (e.g. 01 for January) DD - day of the month (e.g. 08) T - a required separator if time is also specified hh - hour (e.g. 22 for 10.00pm) mm - minutes (e.g. 55) ss - seconds (e.g. 03) TZD - Time Zone Designator (Z denotes Zulu, also known as Greenwich Mean Time)

Return Value:	A String, representing a machine-readable form of the element's date and time

Change the date and time of a <time> element:

document.getElementById("myTime").dateTime = "1999-06-24T09:30Z";