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Bug 12305 - how about presenting date and time in local format to the user?
Summary: how about presenting date and time in local format to the user?
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LC1 HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-03-15 13:31 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-08-04 05:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-03-15 13:31:54 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#date-and-time-state

Comment:
how about presenting date and time in local format to the user?

Posted from: 88.152.254.229
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.3 Safari/534.24
Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-03-15 16:55:00 UTC 
It would indeed be a good idea, which is precisely why the spec allows it.  The format of the input's value is only required to be used to actually send data from the form - the browser is free to present the input's value to the user in whatever friendly way it wants.
Comment 2 Michael[tm] Smith 2011-08-04 05:16:54 UTC 
mass-move component to LC1