<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote">2009/7/30 Tab Atkins Jr. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jackalmage@gmail.com" target="_blank">jackalmage@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div></div><div><div class="im">On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Sam Kuper<<a href="mailto:sam.kuper@uclmail.net" target="_blank">sam.kuper@uclmail.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="im">> Not for BCE; I'm not working on that period at the moment, but excepting<br>
> that, here are a couple of good examples with ranges:<br>
> <a href="http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-10762.html" target="_blank">http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-10762.html</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-295.html" target="_blank">http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-295.html</a><br>
> <a href="http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-6611f.html" target="_blank">http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/darwinletters/calendar/entry-6611f.html</a><br>
> Now, either there should be markup available for ranges, or it should at<br>
> least be possible to specify components of a date independently of each<br>
> other, and to imply (at least for humans) a "range" spanning these different<br>
> date elements as appropriate.<br>
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</div></div></div><div class="im">Now, here's the million-dollar question: Why do you need <time> or<br>
something like it for these dates? You seem to have them marked up<br>
quite fine as it is.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>1) Machine readability.</div><div>2) Consistency across websites that mark up dates.</div></div>
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