What’s the point of using the HTML5 tag?

Question

I have been going through some tutorials on the tag, but I honestly don\'t see why we are using it.

For example:

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Answer 1

HTML5 time element

When in doubt look at the spec!

The time element represents its contents, along with a machine-readable form of those contents in the datetime attribute. The kind of content is limited to various kinds of dates, times, time-zone offsets, and durations, as described below.

From the HTML5.2 spec on the W3C site: https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/textlevel-semantics.html#the-time-element

Have a look at the site for more info. :)