FIX Protocol Tag 42: OrigTime

Time the message was first created, used in messages such as News and Email.

Tag number: 42
Data type: UTCTIMESTAMP
FIX versions: FIX 4.0 to 5.0 SP2
Used in: 2 message types

Tag 42 in each FIX version

Values and message usage as defined in a specific version.

Data type

UTCTIMESTAMP: Date and time in UTC as YYYYMMDD-HH:MM:SS, optionally followed by fractions of a second (.sss).

Example

42=20261020-14:30:05.123

Illustrative value. In a message, fields are separated by the SOH character (0x01), often shown as | or ^ in logs.

Decode a message with this tag

Message types that use tag 42

News 35=B
Email 35=C

Covers every version from FIX 4.0 to 5.0 SP2, including fields reached through components and repeating groups. The version pages above show whether the tag is required in each message.

Field and message data comes from the QuickFIX data dictionaries for FIX 4.0 to 5.0 SP2 and FIXT 1.1, used under the QuickFIX Software License. This product includes software developed by quickfixengine.org (http://www.quickfixengine.org/). Enumerated value names are converted to plain text for reading.