- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:15:37 -0500
I did some searching through the archives, but didn't find anything at all that talked about this. Out of curiousity, was there a reason that datetime doesn't store/send it's value as a unix timestamp? True, the standard unixtime unit is insufficient for representing a useful range of dates, but systems are gradually moving toward representing unixtime with a 64-bit integer. If there is a problem with handling 64-bit integers in browsers, it is easy enough to merely store it as a string, which can then be parsed trivially back into an int by the server, much easier than parsing a datetime string as currently specified would be. There is an obvious issue that you would lose the millisecond precision, but this may or may not be significant. ~TJ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20080730/f0b5a4d9/attachment.htm>
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