- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:10:24 +0100
- To: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>
- CC: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>, Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@opera.com>, Toby A Inkster <mail@tobyinkster.co.uk>, whatwg@lists.whatwg.org, "public-html@w3.org" <public-html@w3.org>
Robert J Burns wrote: > ... > Let us keep in mind that the HTML5 draft does not reference ISO 8601. It > also already reaches way beyond ISO 8601 and claims to handle dates all > the way back to 0000-01-01 whereas ISO 8601 only handles dates between > 1582 and 9999. So HTML5 already takes on the task of specifying dates > ... <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Years>: "The standard permits expansion to, for example, represent years before 1582 or after 9999, but only by prior agreement between the sender and the receiver." BR, Julian
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