dwc:eventDate

A term from the Darwin Core standard:

The date-time or interval during which a dwc:Event occurred. For occurrences, this is the date-time when the dwc:Event was recorded. Not suitable for a time in a geological context.

Notes

Recommended best practice is to use a date that conforms to ISO 8601-1:2019.

Examples

  • 1963-03-08T14:07-0600 (8 Mar 1963 at 2:07pm in the time zone six hours earlier than UTC)
  • 2009-02-20T08:40Z (20 February 2009 8:40am UTC)
  • 2018-08-29T15:19 (3:19pm local time on 29 August 2018)
  • 1809-02-12 (some time during 12 February 1809)
  • 1906-06 (some time in June 1906)
  • 1971 (some time in the year 1971)
  • 2007-03-01T13:00:00Z/2008-05-11T15:30:00Z (some time during the interval between 1 March 2007 1pm UTC and 11 May 2008 3:30pm UTC)
  • 1900/1909 (some time during the interval between the beginning of the year 1900 and the end of the year 1909)
  • 2007-11-13/15 (some time in the interval between 13 November 2007 and 15 November 2007)

Related Data

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Properties

Label

eventDate

EUPH UID

[0.0.VNTDT721]

IRI

http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/eventDate

EUPH URI

https://app.pollinatorhub.eu/metadata/descriptors/0.0.VNTDT721

Data types

Integer, Date, Date and Time, String

Unit

No unit

Deprecated

No

Published

2025-01-24

Updated

2025-01-24
Descriptor relationships

Namespace

dwc

Class

Event Date

Dependencies

dwc:Event
Statistic

Number of datasets

1

Number of columns

5

Number of data points

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