HTML & XHTML Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

Name

time — HTML5

Synopsis

<time> . . . </time>

Represents a time on a 24-hour clock or a date and/or a date on the Gregorian calendar. The time element could be used to pass time and date information in a machine-readable manner to other applications (e.g., saving an event to a personal calendar), or to restyle time information into alternate formats (e.g., 18:00 to 6 p.m.). The time element is not intended to be used to mark up times for which a precise time or date cannot be established, such as “the end of last year” or “the turn of the century.”

Notes

HTML5 only.

Start/End Tags

Required/Required

Attributes

HTML5 Global Attributes

pubdate (pubdate="pubdate" in XHTML)

Indicates that the date and time provided by datetime is the publication date and time of the parent element (the article or whole document).

datetime="YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD"

Identifies the date or time being specified. If the datetime attribute is used, the time element may be empty.

Examples

The deadline for entries is <time datetime="2010-09-01T
 20:00-05:00">September 1, 2010, 8pm EST</time>

Hours: <time>8am</time> to <time>9pm</time>