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Bug 14793 - For Time, if HTML5 can handle time zone effectively. For example if there a web page showing that the football game starts at 6:00pm. One has to understand, it is not local time. It could be 6:00pm ET (Easter US Time). But if you are see that page in Cent
Summary: For Time, if HTML5 can handle time zone effectively. For example if there a w...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: 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/...
Whiteboard: <time>
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-11-11 20:28 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-12-09 22:11 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-11-11 20:28:13 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/Overview.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
For Time, if HTML5 can handle time zone effectively. For example if there a
web page showing that the football game starts at 6:00pm. One has to
understand, it is not local time. It could be 6:00pm ET (Easter US Time). But
if you are see that page in Central US time zone, it should be 5:00pm.

  The idea, is the web page has "6:00pm ET", but when we see in central
timezone, the browser shows time as "5:00pm Local". HTML5 Standardize it, to
show in local time zone (if needed). That makes date and time friendly.

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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-11-11 20:39:50 UTC 
The timestamp format allows the timezone to be included.

Localizing the display of <time> is something for CSS to handle.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-12-09 22:11:51 UTC 
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Status: Partially Accepted
Change Description: none
Rationale: <time> allows you to encode the information. As comment 1 says, it's up to CSS to then use this information for specific rendering purposes.