> > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:16:19 -0700 > From: Guillaume Lebleu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [uf-discuss] RE: Microformats and RDFa not as far apart > as previously thought > To: Microformats Discuss <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Belov, Charles wrote: >> I'd suggest modifying that to not require the computer to parse the >> date. Something like: >> <span class="dstartm" lang="en-us">October</span> <span >> class="dstartd">5</span>, <span class="dstarty">2004</span> >> > +1: DRY-, POSH- and "humans first"-compatible IMO. > > Maybe the following may be POSHer and backward-compatible with the existing dstart class name convention? > > <span class="dtstart" lang="en-us"><span class="month">October</span> <span class="day">5</span>, <span class="year">2004</span></span> >
By George, I think you've got it! Then there is the time issue, including 24-hour vs. 12-hour. So perhaps (with all characters outside the inner spans being optional for human readability): <span class="dtstart" lang="en-us"><span class="month">October</span> <span class="day">5</span>, <span class="year">2004</span>, <span class="hhmm">1740</span> GMT<span class="tz">-7</span></span> would be equivalent to: <span class="dtstart" lang="en-us"><span class="month">October</span> <span class="day">5</span>, <span class="year">2004</span>, <span class="hhmmampm">5:40 a.m.</span> <span class="tzabbr">PDT</span></span> noting that hhmmampm might be expressed with or without the m, or with n for noon (12n) or midnight (12m). Hope this helps, Charles "Chas" Belov SFMTA Webmaster _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
