- From: Chris Lilley <Chris.Lilley@sophia.inria.fr>
- Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 10:28:58 +0200 (MET)
- To: Jukka Korpela <jkorpela@cc.hut.fi>, www-html@w3.org, www-international@w3.org
On Oct 23, 9:07am, Jukka Korpela wrote: > In that draft, the datetime <i>attribute</i> of INS and DEL is required to be > in "ISO date format", referring to ISO 8601. My italics ;-) yes and of course it is entirely reasonable there. > Moreover, requiring _full_ ISO date and time format, although somewhat > inconvenient to HTML authors, is necessary to resolve ambiguities arising > from the fact that there are different time zones. When 3rd February > begins where I live, people in the US will still be living 2nd February. Yes. There is still a minor item to be resolved - apparently 8601 cannot represent leap seconds - but apart from that, a single machine readable date and time string whichh can be directly related to UTC1 is ideal. > Naturally, authors can use whatever format they prefer in the _text_ of > their documents. Yes, which was the point of my earlier post. -- Chris Lilley, W3C [ http://www.w3.org/ ] Graphics and Fonts Guy The World Wide Web Consortium http://www.w3.org/people/chris/ INRIA, Projet W3C chris@w3.org 2004 Rt des Lucioles / BP 93 +33 (0)4 93 65 79 87 06902 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, France
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