[whatwg] date meta-tag invalid

[Henri Sivonen]

On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 13:59 +0000, aykut.sensoy at bild.de wrote:
> i have asked one from the seo team and he says for example the "freshness
> factor" is important for google.

Is there evidence of <meta name="date" content="..."> being part of
Google's freshness factor? Is there public documentation explaining what
<meta name="date" content="..."> means, what date format expected in the
content attribute is and what software does something useful with it?

> is it possible to use the time-tag in the head instead (i mean invisible)?

No, it's not.

> dc:created is also not in the Meta Extensions List, see:
> http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/MetaExtensions

It simply hasn't been registered yet. Is there any evidence of consuming
software that does something useful with dc:created?

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