Editing Timestamp (section)

== Examples ==
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Examples of date-timestamps:
* Thurs 12/31/2009 1:35 [[12-hour clock|p.m.]] — mixed-endian date, big-endian 12-hour clock
* Thurs 31.12.2009 13:35 — same time as the above, different format with little-endian date and big-endian 24-hour clock
* 2005-10-30 T 10:45 [[Coordinated Universal Time|UTC]] — [[ISO 8601]] international order ([[Endianness|big-endian]]) with [[time zone]])
* 2007-11-09 T 11:20 UTC — same format as the above, hence easy to compare and perform alphanumeric sorting
* Sat Jul 23 02:16:57 2005
* 2009-10-31T01:48:52Z — [[ISO 8601]]
* 2009-10-31 01:48:52Z — "Internet time" per [[ISO 8601#RFCs|RFC 3339]], based on ISO 8601
* 1256953732 — [[Unix time]], equivalent to 2009-10-31 T 01:48:52Z
* 1969-07-21 T 02:56 UTC
* 07:38, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
* 1985-102 T 10:15 UTC — year 1985, [[Ordinal date|day number]] 102, ''i.e.'', 1985 April 12
* 1985-W15-5 T 10:15 UTC — year 1985, [[Week#Numbering|week number]] 15, [[ISO week date|weekday]] 5 = 1985 April 12
* 20180203073000 — used in [[Wayback Machine]] memento [[URL]]s, equals 3 February 2018 07:30:00

Examples of datestamps:
* 2025-05-25 — [[ISO 8601]] international representation of 2025 May 25

Examples of timestamps:
* 17:30:23 — time of day in an afternoon
* 123478382 ns — the number of nanoseconds since boot
* 17 minutes — an arbitrary minute counter that increments every 1 minute since its last manual "reset" event

[[Sequence number]]:
* 21 — a unitless counter that indicates only the relative order of events; this is event #21, which comes after 20 and before 22