So, I started this response thinking "How does a full-string timestamp /not/ disambiguate a March 2 date in the following?"
My answer is: by not being human-readable :) The example in the original post shows the problem: <abbr class="dtstart" title="20070312T1700-06"> March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time </abbr> When vocalised, that title is less useful than the text it potentially replaces (screen readers may read just the text, just the title or both). Perhaps I should have said "effective disambiguation, for all human users". At any rate, I think the main problem was referring to different examples - in yours, the shorter date probably would make sense to all users and yes it disambiguates. The datestamp in the microformat however, does not disambiguate for humans. ...and I think I've used up my quota for "disambiguate", so I'll end there ;) cheers, Ben -- --- <http://weblog.200ok.com.au/> --- The future has arrived; it's just not --- evenly distributed. - William Gibson _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
