Is there a Microformat for the Hours a Business is open?

Question

I was wondering if there was yet a Microformat for a business's hours of operation.

If not, who do I submit a standard to?

Answer 1

Perhaps http://microformats.org/ may be of use...

Answer 2

Hi.

If is still useful, you should submit to the microformats community using their wiki: microformats.org.

In this link you have all the existing process to propose a new microformat specification.

Hope that helps.

Answer 3

After submitting the same question to the Microformats mailing list, I received a reply from someone named Martin Hepp who apparently has come up with a specification for this.

He provided me with the following links:

The GoodRelations vocabulary provides a standard way for business hours of operation, see:

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/Rdfa4google

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations_and_Yahoo_SearchMonkey

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the full spec and other materials are at

http://www.ebusiness-unibw.org/wiki/GoodRelations

This is used e.g. by Bestbuy to expose the opening hours of their 1000k stores in the US.

Best

Martin

Answer 4

A HTML micro-format can look like:

<ol class="business_hours">
<li class="monday">Maandag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="17:00:00+01">18.00</span> uur</li>
<li class="tuesday">Dinsdag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="17:00:00+01">18.00</span> uur</li>
<li class="wednesday">Woensdag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="17:00:00+01">18.00</span> uur</li>
<li class="thursday">Donderdag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="17:00:00+01">18.00</span> uur</li>
<li class="friday">Vrijdag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="17:00:00+01">18.00</span> uur</li>
<li class="saturday">Zaterdag <span class="dtstart" title="08:00:00+01">9.00</span> - <span class="dtend" title="15:00:00+1">16.00</span> uur</li>
<li>Zondag Gesloten</li>
</ol>

Excuse my Dutch :)

My 2 cents.