hixie: Limit the number of digits in the fraction part of a seconds time component to 3, since more than that and you lose precision when converting to milliseconds, e.g. for use with Date objects in the API. (whatwg r6892)

hixie: Limit the number of digits in the fraction part of a seconds time
component to 3, since more than that and you lose precision when
converting to milliseconds, e.g. for use with Date objects in the API.
(whatwg r6892)

http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/html5/spec/Overview.html?r1=1.5489&r2=1.5490&f=h
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6891&to=6892

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RCS file: /sources/public/html5/spec/Overview.html,v
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retrieving revision 1.5490
diff -u -d -r1.5489 -r1.5490
--- Overview.html 11 Jan 2012 00:09:17 -0000 1.5489
+++ Overview.html 11 Jan 2012 23:14:59 -0000 1.5490
@@ -4805,7 +4805,7 @@
 
       <ol><li>A 002E FULL STOP character (.)</li>
 
-       <li>One or more <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing the
+       <li>One, two, or three <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing the
        fractional part of <var title="">second</var></li>
 
       </ol></li>
@@ -5344,7 +5344,7 @@
          number of seconds.</li>
 
          <li><p>Optionally, a U+002E FULL STOP character (.) followed
-         by one or more <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing a
+         by one, two, or three <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing a
          fraction of a second.</li>
 
          <li><p>A U+0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S character.</li>
@@ -5379,7 +5379,7 @@
 
      <li><p>If the <a href="#duration-time-component-scale">duration time component scale</a>
      specified is 1 (i.e. the units are seconds), then, optionally, a
-     U+002E FULL STOP character (.) followed by one or more <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing a
+     U+002E FULL STOP character (.) followed by one, two, or three <a href="#concept-datetime-digit" title="concept-datetime-digit">digits</a>, representing a
      fraction of a second.</li>
 
      <li><p>Zero or more <a href="#space-character" title="space character">space

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