20050419T153000

20050419T153000 is a compact datetime representation using the basic ISO 8601 format. In this string, 20050419 encodes the date as year 2005, month 04, and day 19, while the T separates the date from the time portion 153000, which encodes 15:30:00 (3:30 PM) in 24-hour notation. The overall form is a basic (no separators in the date and time parts) variant; the extended form would be written as 2005-04-19T15:30:00.

The string does not include a time zone, so the exact meaning of the time is context-dependent and may be local time or UTC if indicated by additional data. To specify a time zone, a suffix such as Z (for UTC) or an offset like +hhmm or -hhmm can be appended (for example, 20050419T153000Z or 20050419T153000+0000).

Usage and applications: such compact timestamps are common in data storage, logging, file naming, batch processes, and identifiers where concise, sortable timestamps are advantageous. They can help ensure lexicographic ordering and compact representation in systems with restricted character sets or fixed-width fields.

Parsing and conversion: many programming languages provide ways to parse this form. For example, a format like %Y%m%dT%H%M%S can be used in C's strftime/strptime interfaces, Python’s datetime.strptime, or equivalent libraries to convert to a standard datetime object. Converting to a human-friendly or timezone-aware representation typically involves applying or assuming a time zone.

See also ISO 8601; basic vs extended date-time formats; timezone handling.