datetime

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English

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Etymology

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From date +‎ time.

Noun

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datetime (plural datetimes)

  1. (programming) A variable or data type that can hold both date and time components.
    • 2002, Tamar E. Granor, Doug Hennig, Ted Roche, Hacker's Guide to Visual FoxPro 7.0, page 24:
      If you anticipate dealing with a database with multiple time zones, we suggest you consider a region-to-GMT offset table and store all times as absolute GMT datetimes for ease of calculation.

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