On Dec 15, 2007 1:36 PM, Paul Wilkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2007 1:21 PM, Martin McEvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hmm are you sure? 3:23 is expressed as whole plus a decimal fraction > > That's if you use a comma or a fullstop. With the full colon it's > interpreted as hours and minutes. > [QUOTE] > It is also acceptable to omit elements to reduce precision. [hh]:[mm], > [hh][mm] and [hh] are all used. > > Decimal fractions may also be used with any of the three time > elements. These are indicated by using the decimal point (either a > comma (which is preferred ISO 31) or dot). A fraction may only refer > to the most precise component of a time representation. To denote "14 > hours, 30 and one half minutes", do not include a seconds figure. > Represent it as "14:30,5" or "1430,5". > [/QUOTE]
The least that could be got away with is 00:03:23, at which point it would be a toss up between that or PT3M23S Both of the above formats are valid and should be accepted by parsers as a part of the ISO 8601 time/date format. Issues when people markup using the first example are that they are tempted to leave out the hours part and put in 03:23 or even just 3:23, and are left puzzling about why it's interpreted as 3 hours 23 minutes. Issues with the second format is that the abbr tag is in danger of blowing up from excessive stretching of its semantic meaning. -- Paul Wilkins _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
