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* +1 [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] I think the blog archives use case (where blogs often link to their archives by a specific month and year) is sufficient to justify adding this capability to the time element. Content hosting sites like Flickr also list archives by specific year/month, e.g. see http://www.flickr.com/photos/tantek/archives/
* +1 [[User:Tantek|Tantek]] I think the blog archives use case (where blogs often link to their archives by a specific month and year) is sufficient to justify adding this capability to the time element. Content hosting sites like Flickr also list archives by specific year/month, e.g. see http://www.flickr.com/photos/tantek/archives/
* +1 [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] (Per use cases in VCARDDAV - see external links)
* +1 [[User:Pigsonthewing|Andy Mabbett]] (Per use cases in VCARDDAV - see external links)
** [http://portablecontacts.net/draft-spec.html#anchor16 Portable contacts allows this] using a null year value.
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Revision as of 11:35, 13 July 2010

Research, data, use cases, issues, and enhancements related to the HTML5 time element.

year only

The time element should accept just a year.

ISO8601 syntax
YYYY
use case research
http://microformats.org/wiki/birthday-examples#year_only

Opinions / discusion:

year month only

The time element should accept just a year and a month.

ISO8601 syntax
YYYY-MM

Opinions / discusion:

month day only

The time element should accept just a month and a day.

ISO8601 syntax
--MM-DD
use case research
http://microformats.org/wiki/birthday-examples#month_and_day_only

Opinions / discusion:

Calendar

The time element should accept a calendar scale (default is GREGORIAN) per the emergent vCard 4 specification, to facilitate the mark-up of non-Gregorian (e.g. Julian) dates.

Opinions / discussion:

  • +1 Andy Mabbett (Per use cases in VCARDDAV - see external links)
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Fuzzy dates

The time element should accept fuzzy (uncertain, approximate) dates and eras.

Opinions / discussion:

  • +1 Andy Mabbett (Per use cases in "Extended Date Time Format efforts" discussions - see external links)
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External links