- From: <zsau@firespeaker.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 07:21:38 -0500 (EST)
- To: Lachlan Hunt <lhunt07@postoffice.csu.edu.au>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Lachlan Hunt wrote: > A datetime element would be useful because it would designate a piece > of data as a date and/or time. Without it, if you encounter a date on a > webpage that contains a date like 02/04/03, what does that mean? 2 > April 2003? 4 February 2003? 03 April 2003? It's impossible to tell, > without looking at the origin of the web page and then figure out "how > do they write dates in that country?". [1] The kind of person who would write 02/04/03 isn't going to use a datetime tag. They're writing 02/04/03 because it takes too long to write 2 April 2003. If they have _any_ concern for usability, they probably are writing somewhere (e.g. a forum) that strips tags _anyway_, so they won't have the option. -- Tristan.
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