DT is the abbreviation of Date and Time.

The DT type, encoded in BCD in a 64 bit format, contains the following information:

• the year encoded in a 16 bit field;

• the month encoded in an 8 bit field;

• the day encoded in an 8 bit field;

• the time encoded in an 8 bit field;

• the minutes encoded in an 8 bit field;

• the seconds encoded in an 8 bit field.

The DT type must be entered as follows:

DT#<Year>-<Month>-<Day>-<Hour>:<Minutes>:<Seconds>

This table shows the upper/lower limits of each field: