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Hello,<div><br></div><div>Apologies for coming in late but Bruce Lawson pointed me in the direction of this discussion I had some comments about dates in HTML5.</div><div><br></div><div>Lachlan Hunt wrote:</div><div>"The time element was primarily designed to address use cases involving </div><div>contemporary dates. It doesn't address non-Gregorian calendars or BCE </div><div>dates by design, as it is not really meant for historical dates.</div><div><br></div><div>Probably the most historical dates that it would really be suitably </div><div>optimised for are people's birthdates, which, for people alive today, </div><div>don't really extend back beyond the early 20th century, with very few </div><div>exceptions."</div><div><br></div><div>Has any consideration been given to using the <time> tag in the same manner as the <date> element from TEI to mark up dates, particularly the calendar attribute to indicate non-Gregorian calendars? (see <a href="http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P4/html/ref-DATE.html">http://www.tei-c.org/Guidelines/P4/html/ref-DATE.html</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>I ask because one of the sites I look after is the National Maritime Museum archive search, which includes ~70,000 records dating from the 16th century to present. Of those, around 3,500 predate the Gregorian calendar and have, presumably, Julian dates: <a href="http://is.gd/lFrh">http://is.gd/lFrh</a></div><div>It would be useful to mark up these dates as dates in the HTML versions of the catalogue records. However, from what Lachlan Hunt has said, it seems the <time> tag in HTML5 can't be used to do this. This then leads to a situation where some dates on the web can be marked up, semantically, as dates but others cannot, which seems somewhat ridiculous really.</div><div><br></div><div>Is there any suitable markup in HTML5 for dates in digitised documents from museums, libraries and archives?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>Jim O'Donnell</div><div><a href="mailto:jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk">jim@eatyourgreens.org.uk</a></div><div><a href="http://eatyourgreens.org.uk">http://eatyourgreens.org.uk</a></div><div><a href="http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens">http://flickr.com/photos/eatyourgreens</a></div><div><a href="http://twitter.com/pekingspring">http://twitter.com/pekingspring</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></div></body></html>