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004 (Record preparation)

Field number
004
Indicator
blank (undefined)
Repeatable
no
Content
Date of the preparation of the record

This field holds the date on which the exchange record was prepared, which is normally assigned automatically.

The field follows ISO 8601: YYYYMMDDHHMMSS.T

YYYY stands for the year, MM for the month, DD for the day, HH for hours, MM for minutes, SS for seconds and .T for tenths of a second.

Missing details are padded with zeros. The time may be truncated at any point or left out altogether.

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