HTML | DOM ins dateTime Property

Last Updated : 15 Apr, 2019

The DOM ins DateTime Property is used to set or return the value of the DateTime attribute of the <ins> Element. This attribute is used to specify the date and time of the inserted text. The date-time is inserted in the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD.

Syntax:

It is used to return the DateTime property.
```
insObject.dateTime
```

It is used to set the dateTime property.

insObject.dateTime = YYYY -MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD

Property Values:

YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD It specifies the date and time when the text was inserted or change in place of other text.

Explanation:

YYYY – year (e.g. 2009)
MM – month (e.g. 01 for January)
DD – day of the month (e.g. 08)
T – a required separator
hh – hour (e.g. 22 for 10.00pm)
mm – minutes (e.g. 55)
ss – seconds (e.g. 03)
TZD – Time Zone Designator (Z denotes Zulu, also known as Greenwich Mean Time)

Return value: It returns a string value which represent the date and time when the text was inserted and changed in place of other text.

Example-1: This Example that illustrate how to return the datetime Property.

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title>DOM ins dataTime Property 
  </title> 
    <style> 
        del { 
            color: red; 
        } 
          
        ins { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>DOM ins dataTime Property</h2> 
  
    <p>GeeksforGeeks is a 
        <del>mathematical</del> 
  
        <!-- Assigning id to  
             'ins' tag -->
        <ins id="GFG"
             datetime="2018-11-21T15:55:03Z">  
            computer  
        </ins>scienceportal</p> 
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()"> 
      Submit 
    </button> 
    
    <p id="sudo"> 
        <script> 
            function myGeeks() { 
  
                <!-- Return dateTime -->
                var g =  
                    document.getElementById( 
                  "GFG").dateTime; 
                document.getElementById( 
                  "sudo").innerHTML = g; 
            } 
        </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 

Output:
Before Clicking On Button:

After Clicking On Button:

Example-2: This Example that illustrate how to set the dateTime Property.

<html> 
  
<head> 
    <title> 
      DOM ins dataTime Property 
  </title> 
    <style> 
        del { 
            color: red; 
        } 
          
        ins { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        h1 { 
            color: green; 
        } 
          
        body { 
            text-align: center; 
        } 
    </style> 
</head> 
  
<body> 
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1> 
    <h2>DOM ins dataTime Property</h2> 
  
    <p>GeeksforGeeks is a 
        <del>mathematical</del> 
  
        <!-- Assigning id to 'ins' tag -->
        <ins id="GFG"
             datetime="2018-11-21T15:55:03Z">  
            computer  
        </ins>scienceportal</p> 
  
    <button onclick="myGeeks()"> 
      Submit 
  </button> 
    <p id="sudo"> 
        <script> 
            function myGeeks() { 
  
                <!-- Return dateTime -->
                var g =  
                    document.getElementById( 
                  "GFG").dateTime = "2015-10-19T22:45:07Z"; 
                document.getElementById("sudo").innerHTML =  
              "The value of the dateTime attribute was hanged to " 
                + g; 
            } 
        </script> 
</body> 
  
</html> 