`time` element syntax

[David Parsons]

On Jun 2, 2011, at 2:08 AM, David Chambers wrote:


> Hi folks,

>

> I expect that the response to this post will be "we don't need such  

> a thing", but humour me for a moment by pretending that in fact we do.

>

> HTML5 added a number of new tags to the mix, but arguably the most  

> significant is the `time` element. It associates a machine-readable  

> timestamp with a human-readable string (e.g. `<time  

> datetime="2011-05-30T15:00-07:00">30 May 2011</time>`).

>

> I would love to be able to write something like `[30 May 2011] 

> {2011-05-30T15:00-07:00}`.


      That looks like it would be a good place for a pseudo-protocol:

     [two days ago](time:2011-05-30T15:00-07:00 "May 30th, if you care")

      This would have the advantage of being fairly unambiguous, instead
of superimposing a magic time string over the existing linkyformat.


     -david parsons