Re: Suggestion/question for improving datePublished example schema.org

Hi Charles, great you agree with me on this, would be a good idea to add it.

Aaron, thanks for the schema.org link, they explain it there very well, so
I totally understand (since I actually have the same question) you posted
about that before. As far as I can see nobody replied to your mail, am I
right?
I think it's good you made the question more specific when to use meta and
when to use time. However, I can not think of any example where I should
use meta, I think you can always use time...

Kind regards,

Willem-Siebe Spoelstra


2013/11/21 Aaron Bradley <aaranged@gmail.com>

> There is indeed a fairly detailed discussion of the <time> tag and
> datetime attribute on schema.org:
> http://schema.org/docs/gs.html#advanced_dates
>
> But as you point out Willem-Siebe, the examples use <meta> (I raised this
> exact same issue over a year ago -
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-vocabs/2012May/0040.html.)
>
> So I would agree that examples be aligned with the advice to use
> <time>/datetime - but as per my earlier message, it would be instructive to
> know when <meta> would be more appropriate than <time>, and vice versa
> (though as in both cases the expected type is date in ISO 8601 date format,
> so I don't understand why <time> serves to "make dates unambiguous" for
> actual date values).
>
>
> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Willem-Siebe Spoelstra <
> wsspoelstra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I posted a question about this topic here a while ago:
>> https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/webmasters/Xm5l4KFP9yg/vFZ5wIzGx6IJ (with
>> no reply/anwer).
>>
>> On schema.org I find this example:
>>
>> <meta itemprop="datePublished" content="2011-04-01">April 1, 2011
>>
>> However, on w3.org I learn this:
>>
>>
>> <*time* *itemprop="datePublished"* *datetime="2009-08-30"*>yesterday</time>
>>
>>
>> I do think myself the last one is more appropriate HTML. Is it an idea to
>> put this to the list for improving the example on schema.org?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Willem-Siebe Spoelstra
>>
>
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