HTML5 and Datetime

[mikey_w]

Trying to learn HTML5 is very frustrating because things are so poorly defined (and seem to be a moving target).

As of November 2015, is there a way to define the date and time of an article?

I was looking to do this…

<article>
    <header>
        <h1>Some Article Title</h1>
        <??>Published On here</??>
    </header>

</article>

[felgall]

@mikey_w

As of November 2015, is there a way to define the date and time of an article?

There is the <time datetime="ccyy-mm-dd hh:mm"> tag and attribute

[chrisofarabia]

Look up microformats - what @felgall has posted is an example of that.

[John_Betong]

@mikey_w

As of November 2015, is there a way to define the date and time of an article?

Is your article is stored in database table? If so I would also have a date field (stored as TIMESTAMP) and simply use the extensive PHP date formating facilities:

<p>
   <?php echo date('l, jS F Y  - H:i:s ', $dateFromTable);?> 
 </p>

Output:
Monday, 2nd November 2015 - 15:40:25

[mikey_w]

@felgall

There is the <time datetime="ccyy-mm-dd hh:mm"> tag and attribute

So w3.org has added this back into the HTML5 standard?

Yesterday I saw some people say to use pubdate but then other said it was taken out. I thought might be deprecated as well.

[mikey_w]

@John_Betong

Is your article is stored in database table? If so I would also have a date field (stored as TIMESTAMP) and simply use the extensive PHP date formating facilities:

<p>
   <?php echo date('l, jS F Y  - H:i:s ', $dateFromTable);?> 
 </p>

Output:
Monday, 2nd November 2015 - 15:40:25

Yes, articles will be stored in a database.

I am familiar with PHP’s formatting, but this question was one of HTML semantics.

Since I have been learning HTML5, I thought it might be good to add a date-time element to the header of the article element if a valid one exists.

[mikey_w]

According to CanIUse: Time, the support for is bad…

Is there a better alternative?

[felgall]

@mikey_w

So w3.org has added this back into the HTML5 standard?

That was where I looked it up (since I haven’t actually needed it myself yet).