- From: Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:51:43 +0000
In message <CC3986D1-6DDC-4007-8BBA-42A5D4E398CA at eatyourgreens.org.uk>, Jim O'Donnell <jim at eatyourgreens.org.uk> writes >This is already a solved problem in the Text Encoding Intiative (TEI). >The value of a date/time is encoded in the Gregorian calendar, using >ISO8601. The calendar attribute is used to indicate the calendar of >the original, written date enclosed in the tags. >eg. from the TEI docs for dates and times ><date calendar="Julian" value="1732-02-22">Feb. 11, 1731.</date> >I suggested that the calendar attribute be adopted in HTML5, as it >would be useful to those of us who mark up historical texts in HTML. That's one possible solution - better than none - but I do wonder why we'd force authors to manually convert dates, when we all have machines which can do that. >We can't change the author's original written dates That's certainly true. -- Andy Mabbett
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