[uf-discuss] Formatting arbitrary dates, not part of hCalendar

Paul Wilkins pmw57 at xtra.co.nz
Mon Mar 5 21:21:08 PST 2007


Bob Jonkman wrote:
> Hi all:  Today I had the urge to mark up an arbitrary date, not one that is part of 
> an hCalendar event, eg.
> 
>   Use version 7.0.2 from <abbr title="2007-03-05">5 March 2007</span>
> 
> This is to provide some standarization in presenting dates, but keep them human-
> readable in arbitrary format.
> 
> dtstart and dtend aren't appropriate semantic classes in this example.  Is there a 
> proper microformat for arbitrary dates?

No, there isn't a proper microformat, it's more of a design pattern.

Datetime Design Pattern
http://microformats.org/wiki/date

-- 
Paul Wilkins


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