[marsvskittens]

Equally frustrating is when dates are displayed without the weekday, especially when trying to schedule an event. "August 30 2012? Wait, is that a Tuesday or a Wednesday?"

Hopefully the <time> element catches on, so I can make my browser display dates however I like.

[untog]

Personally I think that's an event only argument. I couldn't care less what day of the week a blog post was written, for example.

[MartinCron]

That's a good example about why there's no one-size-fits-all approach to displaying dates and/or date intervals. I care what day of the week I fly. I care if someone commented on my picture 2 minutes or two hours ago. I don't care about the local timezone of someone else's server.

[aaronpk]

Great point about displaying event dates. I think there should be some display guidelines based on the type of content the date is describing.