We should make use of the HTML 5 <time> tag. W3C recommendation and WhatWG living standard.
Presently, the HTML emitted is something of the following sort:
<div class="wikibase-snakview-value wikibase-snakview-variation-valuesnak">13 November 2007</div>
It should probably be something like:
<div class="wikibase-snakview-value wikibase-snakview-variation-valuesnak"><time datetime="2007-11-13">13 November 2007</time></div>
Take into account dates and times in the W3C specification.
| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T87764 Bugs related to time datatype (tracking) | |||
| Open | None | T145898 Wikidata time DataType should emit HTML <time> |
I agree. Also, Wikibase emits lots of stuff. This task does not sufficiently specify the context in which some thing like "<div class="wikibase-snakview-value wikibase-snakview-variation-valuesnak">13 November 2007</div>" is emitted.
Well, I think it's a good assumption that it's the HTML view of the data.... and it's a problem for all time datatypes.
Of course! :)
Also, the WhatWG living standard specifies only how to represent day, month and year precision (and more precise values, but those aren’t supported by Wikibase). What about wrapping the date in a <time> element only if it’s in the Gregorian calendar with at least year precision, and simply leaving less precise and Julian dates without machine-readable markup?