On 20.1.2012 18:52, Cameron Heavon-Jones wrote:


The lang attribute is the structural declaration of the content's localization, 
be it prose or data values. There should be no difference in what the following 
mean:

<p lang="en">This is some english text</p>

<input lang="en" type="text" value="This is some english input"/>

<input lang="en" type="date" value="2012"/>  <!-- An english date -->
"English date" is misleading term here

<input lang="en" type="datetime" value="2010-11-19T15:48+01:00"/>
is a datetime, not English datetime, not Czech datetime (since time zone 
suggests CET), but a datetime, the difference is how it should be presented. 
But also in this case translation/language has no meaning here, because of the 
time zone in dates, East Coast Time presentation will be different than London 
time presentation, it can have the same structure (mm/dd/yyyy [0-11]:[0-59] 
am/pm) but values should be different.
And without lang attribute, this should follow users choice
11/19/2010 2:48 pm in London, 19.11.2010 15:48 in Prague and as such should be 
displayed according to localization




Brona

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