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6th April 2009 - Link Blog

Making the HTML5 time element safe for historians. PPK presents a detailed history of dates and calendars and points out that the HTML5 time element is ill prepared to faithfully represent the kind of dates historians are interested in.

Posted 6th April 2009 at 2:01 pm

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