Re: Safari 5.0.4 ISO 8601 Date Parsing

Hi David,

Thanks for your reply! This works on WebKit Nightly version 5.0.4
(6533.20.27, r80833), as noted in the bug. Do you have an ETA maybe
when we will see this fixed in Safari?

Thanks,
Tom

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On Wednesday, March 23, 2011, David Singer <singer@apple.com> wrote:
> Thomas, hi
>
> we're aware of the bug...I am following the breadcrumb trail on it.  I wonder...have you checked the webkit nightlies?  If it works there, we can hope, and I can stop following breadcrumbs!
>
> On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:17 , Thomas Steiner wrote:
>
>> Hi Eric and David,
>>
>> Raphaël Troncy from the W3C Media Fragments WG (that I'm also part of)
>> suggested to get in touch with you with regards to the Safari 5.0.4
>> bug with the ID 9167763 opened by me
>> (https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/RadarWeb.woa/22/wo/P1GRst1tM9Fhft9riLkA2M/12.83.28.0.9,
>> not sure if the URL works for you, or only with my Apple log-in). The
>> problem is mainly that Date.parse('2007-03-01T13:00:00Z') returns NaN,
>> where it should return the timestamp 1172754000000. While ISO 8601
>> date parsing is defined in ECMA Script 5, my understanding is that
>> Safari (JavaScriptCore) currently implements ECMA Script 3 (but I
>> might be wrong here), so ISO 8601 dates are not required to be
>> working. However, and this is mainly why I opened this bug, WebKit
>> 5.0.4 correctly parses ISO 8601 dates, plus all other browsers that I
>> have tested (see the bug for concrete details). Could you maybe shine
>> some light on the situation?
>>
>> Thank you very much!
>>
>> Best,
>> Tom
>>
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>> Thomas Steiner, Research Scientist, Google Inc.
>> http://blog.tomayac.com, http://twitter.com/tomayac
>
> David Singer
> Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.
>
>

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Received on Wednesday, 23 March 2011 19:21:27 UTC