[uf-discuss] Parsing dates in preferred format

[Andy Mabbett]

In message <89229C2D-EA32-4421-9A65-1D772C10649B at randomchaos.com>, Scott
Reynen <scott at randomchaos.com> writes

>I could possibly be convinced to write such a Greasemonkey script,  but
>I currently suspect it would end up being more annoying than  useful.
>For example, here's a clipping from the second (first  English) live
>example in the wiki for hCalendar [1]:
>
><th scope="row">Tuesday 12<br>
><abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-09-12T19:30:00+01:00">7:30</
>abbr>&ndash;<abbr class="dtend" title="2006-09-12T21:30:00
>+01:00">9:30</abbr>pm</th>
>
>That displays as:
>
>Tuesday 12
>7:30–9:30pm
>
>By auto-converting the ISO8601 dates to my preferred format, that
>would display as:
>
>Tuesday 12
>September 12, 2006 7:30pm–September 12, 2006 9:30pm
>
>I prefer the original, and I suspect this is more the norm than the
>exception.
>
>[1] http://www.westmidlandbirdclub.com/diary/2006-09.htm

Interesting - that's one of my pages.

Can you suggest a better way to mark-up the event?

I could use:

        <th scope="row">
        <abbr class="dtstart" title="2006-09-12T19:30:00+01:00">
                Tuesday 12<br>7:30
        </abbr>
        &ndash;
        <abbr class="dtend" title="2006-09-12T21:30:00+01:00">
                9:30
        </abbr>pm
        </th>

which would solve your issue, but why should "Tuesday 12" be inside the
dtstart and not dtend?


Or is the original premise:

        In the future one could imagine a CSS rule and perhaps a CSS
        property or two that would automatically transform and present
        [...] ISO8601 dates from 'title' attributes of <abbr> elements
        into whatever datetime format the user preferred

rather than my mark-up, at fault?
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