- From: Robin Lionheart <w3c-ml@robinlionheart.com>
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 07:00:06 -0400
- To: <www-html@w3.org>
> How about something like
> <date time="2002-11-19T13:24:38+02:00" lang="fi">13:25 19.11.2002</date>
> and no other format for time attribute would be allowed.
When I'm reading The Register, I encounter article dates like
Posted: 07/05/2003 at 12:29 GMT
Being a USA citizen, I tend to misread this as "July 5" instead of "May 7".
If I read that same article a couple months from now, I wouldn't even catch
my error. I'd like very much for my browser to be able to convert dates for
me, even if only in a tooltip or a status line message.
This would also be of use to speechreading audio browsers speaking dates
aloud.
Received on Thursday, 15 May 2003 06:59:37 UTC