Consider rendering dates/times in HTML time tags

[3noch]

HTML5 has a time tag that's meant to represent dates and times semantically. It is better for indexing and accessibility. But it's also convenient for hiding machine-readable formats in the datetime attribute and displaying it differently.

<time datetime="20160309T130222.3022Z">March 9th</time>

[3noch]

If we took this route it could be nice to have an easy way to add HTML classes to these time elements so that we can auto-localize them on the client side.

[rsyring]

FWIW, this would require the assumption that webgrid was getting rendered in HTML5. Maybe a safe bet these days, but just keep that in mind.

[rsyring]

Actually, not a safe bet for RRS.

[3noch]

Sure. It could be opt-in/opt-out/whatever.

[3noch]

Also, I doubt it actually matters what version of HTML you're "using" since HTML is intentionally unversioned from a browser's perspective: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20516803/is-it-possible-to-use-html5-elements-with-old-html4