Yes, standardization takes a long time, and it's only clear in retrospect that a standard has really "stuck". In my opinion, the jury is still out on ISO 8601...
However, using 8601 in an abbr title and your house style in the abbr content should work just fine, right? On 5/3/07, Patrick H. Lauke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben Wiley Sittler wrote: > in > some cases you can get away with not using abbr: > > Q1 '07: <span class="dtstart">2007-01-01</span> through <span > class="dtend">2007-04-01</span> > > with hyphens it's reasonably human-readable. i've been using fully > punctuated iso 8601 date notation it everyday life (checks, contracts, > even announcements) for years with no problems whatsoever. Just want to raise, at this point, the problem an author might face with regards to an organisation's house styles. For instance, at my university, we have very specific guidelines for how dates and times etc should be written (hint: it ain't ISO-anything). P -- Patrick H. Lauke ______________________________________________________________ re·dux (adj.): brought back; returned. used postpositively [latin : re-, re- + dux, leader; see duke.] www.splintered.co.uk | www.photographia.co.uk http://redux.deviantart.com ______________________________________________________________ Co-lead, Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force http://webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ Take it to the streets ... join the WaSP Street Team http://streetteam.webstandards.org/ ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
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