- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:18:15 +0300
- To: public-html@w3.org
On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Ian Devlin <ian@iandevlin.com> wrote: > My proposal: add an 'era' attribute to the HTML5 <time> element, can be > found at - > http://www.w3.org/html/wg/wiki/User:Idevlin/add_era_attribute_to_time_element I object to this proposal, because I believe there aren't sufficient use cases for machine-readable proleptic Gregorian BCE dates. (I'd object even more to attempts to support Julian to Gregorian roll-over in HTML5 date processing.) I suggest searching for "proleptic Gregorian calendar" in the WHATWG archives. It finds, among other things: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2008-April/014557.html http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2006-August/007095.html -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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