ABSTRACT

The datatypes used within mof are relatively straightforward, with the exception of datetime and string. This appendix describes these.

This datatype can be used to represent either a specific time or an interval between specific times. Both of these representations consist of a string of exactly 25 characters. A specific time is expressed in the form:

yyyymmddhhnnss.uuuuuuPxxx

and an interval is expressed in the form:

ddddddddhhnnss.uuuuuu:000

where the fields are as shown in Table D.1. All fields must be zeropadded on the left to preserve their length and unused fields must be replaced with the appropriate number of asterisks.