[microformats-discuss] Microformat for timestamp of updated content

[Robert Bachmann]

Stephen Downes wrote:
> Bryan J Busch wrote:
> 
>>> <p>
>>> Last update:
>>> <abbr class="page-last-modified" title="20050102">2 Jan 2005</abbr>
>>> </p>
>>>   
> 
> Hm.
> 
> Shouldn't be 'page' because in many cases the item last modified is not
> necessarily stand-alone. I would just say 'last-modified'.

I'll write about this later.

> Also, looking at the various systems of designating dates online, a
> plain format such as '20050102' and '2 Jan 2005' is definitely
> non-standard. 

Althought '20050102' is allowed by ISO8601 the long form '2005-01-02'
is better because it's easier to read for humans.
Same for '20050102T170512Z' versus '2005-01-02T17:05:12Z'.

'2 Jan 2005' was just an example.
The date representation used between <abbr> and </abbr> is up to the
author and IMO out of the scope of this microformat.

Robert
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