2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. <[email protected]> > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kuper<[email protected]> wrote: > > Not for BCE; I'm not working on that period at the moment, but excepting > > that, here are a couple of good examples with ranges: > > http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-10762.html > > http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-295.html > > http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-6611f.html > > Now, either there should be markup available for ranges, or it should at > > least be possible to specify components of a date independently of each > > other, and to imply (at least for humans) a "range" spanning these > different > > date elements as appropriate. > > Now, here's the million-dollar question: Why do you need <time> or > something like it for these dates? You seem to have them marked up > quite fine as it is. >
1) Machine readability. 2) Consistency across websites that mark up dates.
