Re: [whatwg] <time>

On 11 Mar 2009, at 04:46, Leif Halvard Silli wrote:

>> This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative  
>> (TEI). [ ... ] <date calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22">Feb. 11,  
>> 1731.</date> [ ... ] We can't change the author's original written  
>> dates, but it would be useful to normalise documents using the  
>> Julian calendar to proleptic Gregorian dates.
>
> Yes, the draft needs to clear up the (mis)understanding that <time>  
> requires authors to place Gregorian dates in the original.
>
> If the calendaric meta information should be available to human  
> consumers, then then @title seems like a better place. The draft  
> could recommend how to use @title for <time>.


How about something like <time calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22"  
title="22 February 1732">Feb. 11 1731</time>, where title and  
calendar are optional?

Regards
Jim

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