Re: a methodical approach to defining what date elements we need

["Arve Bersvendsen" <arve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:17:55 -0700, Walter Underwood <wunder@xxxxxxxxxx>  
wrote:

> It is in the author's control if we allow the author to provide
> a display date. When an author is posting at 3am local time, or
> during Ramadan, the author's view of the date matters, and should
> normally be preferred.

No. A reader might reformat this date anyway she/he/it pleases, no matter  
what the author's preferenced display format is. That however does not  
mean that we should prevent the author from providing a default date  
preference, based on location, religion and culture. That information is  
however, in my view, best kept out of the date element;

<entry>
  ...
  <author>
    <name>James T. Kirk</name>
    <timezone>-00:00</timezone>
    <calendar type="x-stardates" />
  </author>
  <title>Personal Log Entry</title>
  <created>2287-12-25T13:33:37Z</created>
  <modified>2287-12-25T15:42:22Z</modified>
  <issued>2287-12-25T16:00:00Z</issued>
  ...
</entry>

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