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dandev
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5 years ago
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Expires date format - help

Hi there,

 

Could you give an example of a date, in particular for the expires field for the Create Shared Link With Settings endpoint? I'm struggling to get it to work, keep keeping bad requests.

 

From the docs: %Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ

 

My implementation in PHP: 

date('Y-m-dTH:i:sZ', time() + $a_number_of_seconds)

(which outputs 2021-05-15BST11:23:323600)

 

I assume I shouldn't put the percentage symbols in the date?

 

If you could give me the PHP date format that would be great 🙂 Otherwise a full date example (not just the format) would help.

 

Thanks

 

 

  • Nevermind, figured it out. I needed to be a bit more literal! The T and Z should appear as such in the date, so:

     

    2021-05-15T11:23:32Z

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    dandev
    Helpful | Level 5
    5 years ago

    Nevermind, figured it out. I needed to be a bit more literal! The T and Z should appear as such in the date, so:

     

    2021-05-15T11:23:32Z

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