What’s the point of using the HTML5 <time> tag?

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

For example:

Published <time pubdate datetime="2011-07-03">07/03</time>

If we are going to have a string 07/03 anyway, what is the purpose of using a time tag? It doesn't validate anything.

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