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

The time element also has an associated DOM API that can be used. See http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/2011/05/31/dom-scripting-and-the-time-element and http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html#the-time-element