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4.4.4 The article element http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/sections.html#the-article-element The article element's description contains this note: -- Note: The time element's pubdate attribute can be used to provide the publication date for an article element. -- This note, while interesting, seems out of place? Also, the example given uses a non-floating time value. Pubdates are often intended as floating date values that do not change value according to local time zone offset (e.g. Tuesday, 7 May 2012's edition of the New York Times remained rooted in 7 May and is not shown to be Wednesday's edition just because the reader is in Japan). Here's the example: <h1>The Very First Rule of Life</h1> <p><time pubdate datetime="2009-10-09T14:28-08:00"></time></p>
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I18N agrees that this comment is stale. Thank you.