- From: Robert Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:40:52 -0500
- To: a@simongrant.org
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:15 AM, Simon Grant wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> In the HTML 5 W3C Editor's Draft 23 June 2007
> http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/html5/spec/Overview.html?
> content-type=text/html;%20charset=iso-8859-1#documents
>
> I was dismayed to find a ghastly local practice for the date in 2.1.2.
>
> "The lastModified attribute, on getting, must return the date and time
> of the Document's source file's last modification, in the user's local
> timezone, in the following format:
>
> 1. The month component of the date.
> 2. A U+002F SOLIDUS character ('/').
> 3. The day component of the date.
> 4. A U+002F SOLIDUS character ('/').
> 5. The year component of the date.
> 6. A U+0020 SPACE character.
> 7. The hours component of the time.
> 8. A U+003A COLON character (':').
> 9. The minutes component of the time.
> 10. A U+003A COLON character (':').
> 11. The seconds component of the time. "
>
> Can't we have an ISO standard date-time here? Please?
I was surprised by the same thing (and I live where we use that
ghastly local practice). Since it deals with an area in which I'm not
familiar, I thought it was just hard-coding the widespread practice.
But as I said I don't know about this area of the spec.
Take care,
Rob
Received on Wednesday, 27 June 2007 18:41:00 UTC