HTML Time Tag

HTML <time> tag is used to define date and time. It displays time value in a 24 hour clock or a precise date in a Gregorian calendar in HTML.

It is used to encode dates and times in a machine-readable way to make easy to mark or schedule your task.

It also helps search engines to produce smarter search results.

HTML <time> is a new tag and introduced in HTML5.

Let's see the syntax to define date and time.

Attribute

There is only one specific attribute of HTML5 time tag.

HTML time tag example

Output:

We open our shop at 09:00 am.

The business meeting is scheduled on next wednesday.

The wedding of Salman's sister was scheduled at 7pm last wednesday .

In this example, First line in the body tag defines basic usage of time tag.

Second line shows how to use the datetime attribute to provide contents in a machine-readable format.

Third line uses the datetime attribute to provide an even more specific date and time.

The <time> tag also supports global attributes and event attributes in HTML 5.

Supporting Browsers

Element	Chrome	IE	Firefox	Opera	Safari
<time>	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes