`<time datetime="...">` lets you display a human-friendly date while giving machines an ISO-8601 timestamp. Used by browsers, Schema.org parsers, and screen readers.
HTML
<!-- Date only -->
<time datetime="2025-03-12">March 12, 2025</time>
<!-- Date + time -->
<time datetime="2025-03-12T14:25:00-05:00">Today at 2:25 PM CDT</time>
<!-- Duration -->
<p>Estimated read time: <time datetime="PT8M">8 minutes</time></p>
<!-- Times of week / month -->
<p>We're open <time datetime="09:00">9 AM</time>–<time datetime="17:00">5 PM</time>.</p>
<!-- Inside a blog post header -->
<article>
<header>
<h2>Post title</h2>
<p>
Published <time datetime="2025-03-12T08:00-05:00" pubdate>March 12</time>,
updated <time datetime="2025-03-15T10:00-05:00">March 15</time>.
</p>
</header>
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