Tantek Çelik wrote:
And though it may seem odd that I'm simultaneously arguing against the
proposed title-design-pattern and attempting to improve it, even if
I am
against a particular proposal, I would much rather attempt to
improve it in
good faith, for the benefit of having the best possible proposals be
discussed, than not.
This is wise, and I will follow your example:
The seconds in ISO 8601 are optional, and are almost always "00"...
Since screen readers sometimes pronounce HH:MM correctly but rarely
get HH:MM:SS correctly, it would be better to avoid using seconds,
too. Although I don't believe it's good enough, omitting the seconds
would make time pronunciations slightly better, as including the
dashes makes date pronunciations slightly better.
"2007-04-29T12:30:00+06:00" would be "two thousand seven dash zero
four dash twenty nine tee twelve thirty zero zero plus six o'clock"
"2007-04-29T12:30+06:00" would be "two thousand seven dash zero four
dash twenty nine tee twelve thirty plus six o'clock"
Note: In negative time zones (i.e. Pacific is "-08:00"), the hyphen
is usually pronounced as "dash." I am not aware of any non-custom
verbosity defaults than pronounce the hyphen as "minus." Therefore,
though "two o'clock plus five o'clock" makes *some* vague sense as a
time zone adjustment to 7 AM, "two o'clock dash five o'clock" implies
a 3-hour duration from 2 AM until 5 AM rather than the intended
meaning of 9 PM the previous day.
Quoting a recurrence example from the Microformats wiki at:
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar-brainstorming#Laughing_Squid
Then we put in the quite lengthy explicit specification of every
other time the event occurs, marked up around the human readable
description.
<abbr class="rdate" title="20050407T1200-0700/PT7H,
20050408T1200-0700/PT7H,
20050409T1200-0700/PT7H, 20050410T1200-0700/PT6H,
20050412T1200-0700/PT4H,
20050413T1200-0700/PT4H, 200504014T1200-0700/PT7H,
20050415T1200-0700/PT7H,
20050416T1200-0700/PT7H, 20050417T1200-0700/PT6H,
20050419T1200-0700/PT4H,
20050420T1200-0700/PT4H, 20050421T1200-0700/PT7H" >
Tu/Wed: 12-4pm Th/Fr/Sat 12-7pm Sun 12-6pm
</abbr>
In Jaws 8 on Windows XP, this is pronounced, "Hey you... yeah you,
'Blindey.' F**k off." ;-)
Cheers,
James
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