MT 942 Field Specifications

7. Field 13D: Date/Time Indication

FORMAT

Option D 6!n4!n1!x4!n (Date) (Time) (Sign) (Offset)

PRESENCE

Mandatory

DEFINITION

This field indicates the date, time and time zone at which the report was created.

NETWORK VALIDATED RULES

Date must be a valid date expressed as YYMMDD (Error code(s): T50).

Time must be a valid time expressed as HHMM (Error code(s): T38).

Sign is either "+" or "-" (Error code(s): T15).

Time offset is expressed as 'HHMM', where the hour component, ie, 'HH', must be in the range of 00 through 13, and the minute component, ie, 'MM' must be in the range of 00 through 59. Any 'HH' or 'MM' component outside of these range checks will be disallowed (Error code(s): T16).

USAGE RULES

The time zone in which Time is expressed is to be identified by means of the offset against the UTC (Coordinated Universal Time - ISO 8601).