HTML <ins> datetime Attribute

Last Updated : 12 Mar, 2024

The <ins> datetime Attribute in TML 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:

<ins datetime="YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD">

Attribute Values: This attribute contains single value YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD which is used to specify the date and time when the text was deleted.
The explanation of datetime components are listed below:

YYYY: It sets the year of datetime object (e.g. 2009).
MM: It sets the month of datetime object (e.g. 05 for March).
DD: It sets the day of the month of datetime object (e.g. 04).
T: It is a required separator.
hh: It sets the hour of datetime object (e.g. 18 for 06.00pm).
mm: It sets the minutes of datetime object (e.g. 34).
ss: It sets the seconds of datetime object (e.g. 40).
TZD: Time Zone Designator (Z denotes Zulu, also known as Greenwich Mean Time)

Example:

html

<!DOCTYPE html>  
<html>  
  
<head>  
    <title> 
        HTML ins datetime Attribute  
    </title>  
      
    <style>  
        del {  
            color: red;  
        }  
          
        ins {  
            color: green;  
        }  
          
        h1 {  
            color: green;  
        }  
          
        body {  
            text-align: center;  
        }  
    </style>  
</head>  
  
<body>  
    <h1>GeeksforGeeks</h1>  
      
    <h2> 
        HTML <ins> datetime Attribute 
    </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> 
  
</body>  
  
</html>                     