datePublished
Date of first publication or broadcast. For example the date a CreativeWork was broadcast or a Certification was issued.
Definition from the Schema.org vocabulary (English).
Estimated domains
10M+ stable
Trend over time
Domain tier in each available month.
Usage in Google Search
Documented Google contexts where this property is required or recommended for rich results.
- Requireddiscussion-forum
DateTime The date and time the comment was made in ISO 8601 format. If no changes have happened, it's not necessary to duplicate the publish date.
- Requireddiscussion-forum
DateTime The date and time the post was made in ISO 8601 format.
- Recommendedqapage
DateTime The date and time the question was answered in ISO 8601 format.
- Recommendedarticle
DateTime The date and time the article was first published, in ISO 8601 format. We recommend that you provide timezone information; otherwise, we will default to the timezone used by Googlebot. Add the datePublished property if you want to provide more accurate date information to Google. The Rich Results Test doesn't show a warning for this property, as it's only recommended if you decide that it's applicable to your site.
- Recommendedfactcheck
DateTime or Date The date when the claim was made or entered public discourse (for example, when it became popular in social networks).
- Recommendedqapage
DateTime The date and time the comment was written in ISO 8601 format.
- Recommendedqapage
DateTime The date and time the question was posted in ISO 8601 format.
- Recommendedrecipe
Date The date the recipe was published in ISO 8601 format, if applicable.
- Recommendedreview-snippet
Date The date that the review was published, in ISO 8601 date format.
Used on types
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