[Bug 7145] Valid date strings should accept ambiguous inputs, like "2009" or "2007-01".

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=7145


Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
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--- Comment #2 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>  2009-08-09 23:06:37 ---
This has been discussed a number of times. For an overview of the topic, please
see these e-mails:
   http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-March/018888.html
   http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-August/021745.html

It's not clear why this:

   <p>Dolly was born in <time>2009</time>.</p>

...is any better than this:

   <p>Dolly was born in 2009.</p>

It's not like the year is going to be used in calendar data or localised in
special ways.

Without clear use cases, I don't intend to change the spec here.


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