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

[Asbjørn Ulsberg <asbjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

> > What a view date is, is by it's very nature not in a feed author's
> > control [2].
>
> It is in the author's control if we allow the author to provide
> a display date.

Then that should be <userdate> and not <issued>, as «issued» in Dublin  
Core terms, is the formal date of issuance, not a subjective random string  
formatted as a W3CDTF.

> 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.

Preferred by whom? Not by me, to be sure. And not by NRK. And not by EBU.  
We want dates we can trust, preferably provided by the tools issuing the  
entries. _All_ tools has this action. They just don't apply a date when  
doing it. The date provided by the user should not be <issued>, but  
<userdate>, <visible-date> or something in those lines.

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