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Bug 12021 - Is <time>2011</time> acceptable? The formulation "precisedate" suggests that it is not, but an example says that "the year is not marked up at all, since marking it up would not be particularly useful", implying (IMHO) that it would be _possible_ to use <
Summary: Is <time>2011</time> acceptable? The formulation "precisedate" suggests that ...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-02-09 12:59 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:05 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-02-09 12:59:09 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-time-element

Comment:
Is <time>2011</time> acceptable? The formulation "precisedate" suggests that
it is not, but an example says that "the year is not marked up at all, since
marking it up would not be particularly useful", implying (IMHO) that it would
be _possible_ to use <time> markup for it.

Posted from: 88.114.29.18
Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-02-09 16:15:53 UTC 
No, the <time> element either represents a date (year-month-day) or a time or a datetime.

The language in that example is misleading, though - it does indeed suggest that it would be *possible* to only mark up the year.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-03-04 01:58:00 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments and thus clarified example.
Comment 3 contributor 2011-03-04 02:10:58 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5941.
Check-in comment: clarify <time> example
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5940&to=5941
Comment 4 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:05:49 UTC 
mass-moved component to LC1