20240615T083000Z

20240615T083000Z is an ISO 8601 timestamp that encodes the moment June 15, 2024, at 08:30:00 in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The suffix 'Z' indicates Zulu time, another name for UTC, and the 'T' separates the date and time components in a concise, machine-readable form.

In this compact representation, the date is written as 2024-06-15 without separators, and the time as 08:30:00. This basic ISO 8601 format is widely used in data interchange, system logs, and file naming because it is unambiguous and sorts lexicographically in the same order as chronological time.

Applications include timestamping events in software systems, API message headers, database keys, and scheduling data. The UTC designation helps avoid regional time zone ambiguity when aggregating data from multiple locations.

Parsing this timestamp is supported by most programming languages and tools. For example, Java Instant.parse("20240615T083000Z") yields an instant in UTC; Python's datetime module with appropriate timezone handling can parse it; JavaScript's Date constructors can parse it as a UTC date.

Notes: If a time zone offset were present instead of Z, it would indicate a local equivalent of UTC, but without an offset the value is understood as UTC. The format adheres to ISO 8601 standards.