- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:49:58 +0100
WeBMartians wrote: > Believe it or not, Yes! > > Consider the couple to be congratulated on their gazillionth anniversary. Is that diamond, gold, platinum? Whatever it is, if your > date time system is limited to epoch 1970, you're out of luck. That's why I claim that restrictions (rigorously documented) are OK > as long as they are not ludicrous - "ludicrous" being a gray area, rather than a sharp line - 1970 definitely is, 1900 is probably > OK, 1582 is interesting and far less ludicrous, while -9999 is very safe but maybe ludicrous in other ways (prolepsis, locales...). For what it's worth, the proposed spec already defines rigorous limits "Dates before the year 0 or after the year 9999 can't be represented as a datetime in this version of HTML." http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#dates -- Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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