- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@imbolc.ucc.ie>
- Date: 26 Oct 1997 20:28:45 +0000 (GMT)
- To: www-international@w3.org, www-html@w3.org
> Well, we cannot have English/US names > as the standard of the internet. That's why we need 2004-02-03. Ah, so you (and several others) have been discussing date representation in machine-readable protocol specification, while I and several othrs were talking about dates in human-readable text, hence the confusion. The point about using markup is surely that I can use <date value="2004-02-03" calendar="whatever">3. Feber 1997</date> in my Austrian Web pages and it can still be found by anyone searching for events happening that day (or whatever the application is), and given a target language and locale, any conversion process can trivially localize the dates as part of the automation of translation (whenever that arrives). ///Peter
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