[Bug 18267] This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called out here, or this type should be rethought to be more inclusive of other calendars.The text "midnight UTC on the morning of the parsed date" should be "the midnight UTC that is

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=18267

Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org> 2012-09-13 15:31:26 UTC ---
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Status: Accepted
Rationale: As it says in the implementation notes, "Browsers are encouraged to
use user interfaces that present dates, times, and numbers according to the
conventions of either the locale implied by the input element's language or the
user's preferred locale." So it is not only possible to display a UI that is
locale aware and can take into account different calendars, converting to the
canonical date format (as explained in the Dates section), but actually
encouraged.

Of course, implementations might not be entirely up to the par on this just
yet, but that's for them to fix by building better UIs.

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Received on Thursday, 13 September 2012 15:31:34 UTC