- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 23:07:34 +0000
On 2 Jan 2009, at 21:53, Asbj?rn Ulsberg wrote: > On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 11:09:24 +0100, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > >> The spec draws the line already -- it says that the date has to be >> in the >> proleptic Gregorian calendar, and that the year has to be greater >> than >> zero. > > Reading the spec, I have to wonder: Does HTML5 need to specify as > much as it does inline? Can't more of it be referenced to ISO 8601 > or even better; RFC 3339? I really fancy how Atom (RFC 4287) has > defined date constructs: > <http://www.atompub.org/rfc4287.html#date.constructs> > > Does not RFC 3339 defined date and time in a satisfactory manner to > use directly in HTML5? If there's prior discussion regarding this, > I'd really appreciate a pointer. Thanks! Without looking up prior discussion, the short answer is that content relies upon the parsing currently specified. Also, neither RFC3339 nor ISO8601 define parsing. -- Geoffrey Sneddon <http://gsnedders.com/>
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