opening-hours-formats
<entry-title>opening hours formats</entry-title>
This is part of an effort per the microformats process to research, gather examples, and brainstorm for a microformat for marking up the opening-hours for a business or organization.
OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap allows venues to be tagged with the opening_hours tag. The value of this tag has been formalized and is defined in the TimeDomain specification, where there is also a JavaScript implementation.
The same string-based format is used to mark the times of religious services in places of worship using the service_times tag, the times of collections from post boxes with the collection-times tag, and there is a proposal to mark venues which allow smoking (possibly in a separate area) with the smoking_hours tag.
A broader proposal also exists for using the opening_hours format for describing conditional restrictions, for instance roads that have speed limits that vary depending on time of day, and roads that allow only specific types of traffic (buses and bicycles, for instance) during periods of the day.
Comments can also be added in quotations.
Examples:
- Tu-Su 08:00-15:00;Sa 08:00-12:00 – see node:624582426, a cafe in Terlizzi, Italy.
Google maps display
Google places uses this format to *display* the opening hours, and then applies some javascript to hide the lines which are not immediately useful: The translate the day names and the time formats into the users locale.
This is clearly rendered data for end user consumption and not a format one can use to establish a standard.
See an example here with opening hours: http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=17374953169507020841
<table style="" id="oh-ov-table" class="oh-table">
<tbody>
<tr class="oh-highlight-day">
<td class="oh-day">
Montag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
11:00-16:00
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Dienstag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
11:00-22:00
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Mittwoch
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
11:00-22:00
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Donnerstag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
11:00-22:00
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Freitag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
11:00-16:00
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Samstag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
Geschlossen
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="oh-day">
Sonntag
</td>
<td dir="ltr">
Geschlossen
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>