How to display the time in HTML ?

Last Updated : 30 Jan, 2024

The <time> Tag is used to display the human-readable date/time. It can also be used to encode dates and times in a machine-readable form. The main advantage for users is that they can offer to add birthday reminders or scheduled events to their calendars and search engines can produce smarter search results.

<time> is used to represent specific dates and times.
Utilize the datetime attribute for a machine-readable format.
Include human-readable content within the `<time>` tags.
Adds semantic meaning to time-related content.
Improves accessibility with both machine-readable and human-readable representations.

Syntax

<time attribute> Time... </time>

Example:

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 
<head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content=
          "width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Time Element</title>
</head>
 
<body>
    <p>Published on 
      <time datetime="2024-01-31">January 31, 2024</time>
      </p>
</body>
 
</html>