RE: a methodical approach to defining what date elements we need (UTC, created/modified etc)

["meyer_jon" <meyer_jon@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> What Bloggers calls Post Date and Time [1], and what LiveJournal  
>> simply calls Date and Local Time of an entry is different.   
>> Qualitatively different.  It is subjective.  It's primary purpose is 
>> for display.  For human consumption.

If people want "qualitative subjective" dates for display, use xsd:string,
remove any specification of how the date is formatted, and be done with it.
Then I can be free to use my favorite human-oriented date approach, e.g.
"environ deux heures après café, Dimanche, mi juin”.

In my opinion, this kind of qualitative subjective information fits very
nicely as part of the content of a blog entry, but if people want an
optional "atom:issued-subjective" element that's ok by me. Lets keep
atom:issued, atom:modified and atom:created as xsd:dateTimes though, with
timezones or UCT. 

Locality is useful data. I would be in favor of an atom:location tag as part
of atom:person tag, so I can say something like:
 
<author>
   <name>John Doe</name>
   <location>US-NY</location>
</author>

Not sure if there is a good standard to use for locations however.

Jon

@issued-subjective="at 1am, sorry if I'm a bit grouchy"