- From: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:53:13 -0500
I don't believe so. I also don't think there's any way to do the equivalent in JavaScript, e.g., asking for a Date object to generate a string representation in some other locale (aside from UTC). >From personal experience, I've found that when users need to enter times for timezones other than their own, the chance of error is high. 2012/1/12 Schalk Neethling <sneethling at mozilla.com> > yep, that answers my question but, is there any work done to perhaps add > an attribute where the author can specify the date format they require/want? > > Thanks, Scott > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Gonz?lez" <scott.gonzalez at gmail.com> > To: "Schalk Neethling" <sneethling at mozilla.com> > Cc: whatwg at lists.whatwg.org > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:39:21 PM > Subject: Re: [whatwg] input type=date > > I think the following note answers your question: > > "Note: The format shown to the user is independent of the format used for > form submission. Browsers are encouraged to use user interfaces that > present dates according to the conventions of the user's preferred locale." > - > http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#date-state-(type=date) > > > > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Schalk Neethling < sneethling at mozilla.com> wrote: > > > Hey all, > > Asked this on IRC and got no response so here goes: > > Is there a way to specify the locale input type=daye should use or does it > simply use the current locale? If so, does it choose the server locale or > the user locale? > > Kind Regards, > Schalk > Web Developer @ Mozilla > >
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