# DateTime sqlTags

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-sqltags/9570>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 20, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-sqltags/9570 "2015-01-20T01:41:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![MCC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@MCC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MCC)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 1:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-sqltags/9570/1 "2015-01-20T01:41:02Z")

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This may be a stupid question, but I’m wondering if there is some information on the DateTime sqlTag datatype. In scripting, if I perform a system.tag.read() on a tag that is configured as DateTime, what is returned? I thought that Ignition’s python implementation did not include the datetime library.

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**Author:** ![MCC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3e96dc/32.png) [@MCC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/MCC)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2015, 11:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/datetime-sqltags/9570/2 "2015-02-02T23:20:18Z")

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The value is a java Date.