What is a valid date time/is the parser broken?

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16584356

Question

In the example given the startDate doesn't validate! I've tried bumping it forward a few days, but it was still no good!

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<html>
  <head>
    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
      "@context":             "schema.org",
      "@type":                "EventReservation",
      "reservationNumber":    "IO12345",
      "underName": "John Smith",
      "reservationFor": {
        "@type": "Event",
        "name":               "Google I/O 2013",
        "startDate":          "2013-05-15T08:30-08:00",
        "location":           "Moscone Center, 800 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103"
      }
    }
    </script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>
      Dear John, thanks for booking your Google I/O ticket with us.
    </p>
    <p>
      BOOKING DETAILS<br/>
      Order for: John Smith<br/>
      Event: Google I/O 2013<br/>
      Start time: May 15th 2013 8:00am PST<br/>
      Venue: Moscone Center, 800 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94103<br/>
      Reservation number: IO12345<br/>
    </p>
  </body>
</html>
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Solution

Sorry, that's a bug in the schema validator tool, we'll fix it as soon as possible.

I also checked your markup and you should add the seconds to the startDate field, as in "2013-05-15T08:30:00-08:00".

Datetimes should be defined in the markup using the ISO 8601 format:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

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