[whatwg] Historic dates in HTML5

[Lachlan Hunt]

Bruce Lawson quoted Andy Mabbat:
> Andy Mabbett has already listed use cases
> http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-February/018639.html
> ...
> They can be mapped visually on a "SIMILE"
> 
>   <http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/>
> 
> or similar time-line.

It's not clear how such a timeline would make use of the time element 
and I couldn't find any use of microformats on that page.  Could you 
please elaborate on the relevance of that page in regards to this issue?

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