HTMLTimeElement: dateTime property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since October 2017.

The HTMLTimeElement.dateTime property is a string that reflects the datetime HTML attribute, containing a machine-readable form of the element's date and time value.

Value

A string. For valid string formats, see the datetime valid values.

Examples

js
// Assumes there is <time id="t"> element in the HTML

const t = document.getElementById("t");
t.dateTime = "6w 5h 34m 5s";

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-time-datetime

Browser compatibility

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See also