[microformats-discuss] re: Microformat for timestamp of updated content

Ryan King ryan at technorati.com
Wed Aug 17 14:39:59 PDT 2005


On Aug 17, 2005, at 12:37 PM, Tantek Çelik wrote:
>
> Not quite.  He literally meant *between* <abbr> and </abbr>, e.g.  
> in your
> words:
>
> <abbr class="last-modified" title="[ISO8601 datetime]">
>   [unknown date/time format]
> </abbr>
>
> And the inside, far from being "unknown" is whatever the content
> author/publisher chooses is appropriate for their site, audience,  
> language,
> locality etc. etc.
>
> We've been leaning towards restricting the set of ISO8601 datetime  
> used by
> hCalendar to that documented in the W3C datetime note.  Joe's implied
> suggestion to use RFC3339 is something we should consider.


Its not clear to me how RFC 3339 differs from ISO 8601. Can anyone  
summarize the differences?

-ryan


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