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<p>Those timestamps are speaking <strong>ISO 8601</strong>, the international standard for dates that computers love more than humans.</p><p>Example:</p><p> <code>2026-01-13T12:33:44.000Z</code></p><p>Here’s the decoding, since the letters are doing a lot of quiet work:</p><p><strong>T</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Stands for <strong>Time separator</strong>.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>It just separates the date from the time.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Read it as “at”.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span> So <code>2026-01-13T12:33:44</code> means</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span> <strong>13 Jan 2026 at 12:33:44</strong></li></ol><p><strong>Z</strong></p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Stands for <strong>Zulu time</strong>, which is fancy military-speak for <strong>UTC (Coordinated Universal Time)</strong>.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>It means the time is <strong>not local</strong>, not IST, not PST, not whatever your laptop feels like today.</li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Zero offset. Absolute reference time.</li></ol><p>So the full thing means:</p><p> <strong>13 Jan 2026, 12:33:44 UTC</strong></p><p>If you’re in India (IST = UTC + 5:30), that would be:</p><p> <strong>13 Jan 2026, 18:03:44 IST</strong></p><p>In short:</p><ol><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><strong>T = date and time glue</strong></li><li data-list="bullet"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span><strong>Z = this time ignores your timezone drama</strong></li></ol><p>Machines insist on this format because chaos is bad for databases. Humans, unfortunately, were not consulted.</p><p><br></p>