- From: Jim O'Donnell <jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:52:39 +0000
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 Jim O'Donnell jim at eatyourgreens.org.uk http://eatyourgreens.org.uk http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens http://twitter.com/pekingspring -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20090311/5b20950d/attachment.htm>
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