Malaysia: Invoice Issue Time

Malaysia requires the invoice issue time to be provided in UTC.

To indicate UTC, add a final Z to the indicated time. Wrong timestamps lead to invoice rejections.

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Note

This also affects the issue date of the invoice that is specified in the IssueDate element.

Element

Use the IssueTime element to model this information:

Name (Path)CardinalityDescription
Invoice Issue Time (Invoice\IssueTime)0..1The time, assigned by the sender, at which this document was issued. Specify the time that the document was issued.

Example

<ubl:Invoice>
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
    <cbc:IssueTime>13:30:00Z</cbc:IssueTime>
    <!-- Code omitted for clarity -->
</ubl:Invoice>