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World-wide interaction in real-time (or near real-time) requires unambiguous representations of times and dates. Here are some resources:
Dates and time in Web pages:
<date
value="2001-05-02">
The second of May, 2001</date>
.And some handy little tools:
How time is maintained on the Internet http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Time/
A proposal for unambiguous, machine-readable dates & times http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime
A time zone computer (Java applet) http://www.w3.org/International/O-time-tzcomputer.html
Time zone sensitive clocks (Java applet) http://www.w3.org/International/O-time-clocks.html
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#dateTime