[microformats-discuss] International date formats

[Sam Deane]

On 26 Jul 2005, at 09:31, Tantek Çelik wrote:

> I'd just like to see this argument pushed up stream, because I  
> think it has
> a decent chance, and would benefit many others.

Talking about pushing things up stream, it seems to me that a date is  
such a fundamental thing, and the display of it as text is so  
location (and user-preference) specific, that there really ought to  
be a standard way of representing it in HTML/XHTML which _requires_  
the browser to render the date in the user's local format.

One shouldn't need to resort to javascript and tool tips!