- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:04:56 +0000 (UTC)
- To: Adam Hepton <adam@hepton.org>
- Cc: public-html-comments@w3.org
On Wed, 2 Dec 2009, Adam Hepton wrote: > > >From 2.4.5.5 Global dates and times > (http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#global-dates-and-times:): > > The following are some examples of dates written as valid global date > and time strings. > > "0037-12-13T00:00Z" > Midnight UTC on the birthday of Nero (the Roman Emperor). > "1979-10-14T12:00:00.001-04:00" > One millisecond after noon on October 14th 1979, in the time zone > in use on the east coast of the USA during daylight saving time. > "8592-01-01T02:09+02:09" > Midnight UTC on the 1st of January, 8592. The time zone associated > with that time is two hours and nine minutes ahead of UTC, which is > not currently a real time zone, but is nonetheless allowed. > > Why is Nero's birthday given such importance, as though it is a date > that should be inscribed into everyone's mind who might read the HTML > 5 spec? It is frivilous, and unwelcome. The description should read: > > Midnight UTC on 13th December 37 AD. Because it's not 13th December 37 AD, it's more like the 15th of December 37, as far as I can tell. There's a note below the date explaining this. I've added some text to the bit you quoted above referring to the further explanation to try to reduce the confusion. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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