What is the correct way to declare a date in an OpenAPI / Swagger-file?

Question

What is the correct way to declare a date in a swagger-file object? I would think it is:

  startDate:
    type: string
    description: Start date
    exampl         


        

Answer 1

A correct example of declaring date in an Open API swagger file:

    properties:
      releaseDate:
        type: date
        pattern: /([0-9]{4})-(?:[0-9]{2})-([0-9]{2})/
        example: "2019-05-17"