Data Type

Description

Date and time

Format is YYYY-MM-DDThhmmssZ, where:

nT separates the date and the time

nZ indicates Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), also known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

Example  2020-01-11T224757Z equals January 11, 2020, at 22:47:57 (10:47:57 p.m.)

Decimal

Number that includes a decimal point

Example  23.45, -0.1, 4.0, 90809.0468

Integer

Whole number {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}

Nonnegative integer

Whole number greater than or equal to zero {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}

Positive integer

Whole number greater than zero {1, 2, 3, ...}

String

Sequence of letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters