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2.5.5.2 Dates http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/common-microsyntaxes.html#dates The 'date' definition contains no time zone information. It is thus a floating date value and a health warning should be included about converting it to/from incremental time values. Note that JavaScript is working on an I18N extension that will include time zone support.
This bug was cloned to create bug 17854 as part of operation convergence.
My plan is to prepare a change that adds a non-normative health warning. I'll start working on the change for HTML5.1 and if it is acceptable, I will port the change back to HTML5.0 CR branch and resolve this bug.
The health warning change has landed in 5.1. Please review: https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/6704d9ac2cf55a8eae2b0e12f675d74df4c3d65f
Looks healthy to me.
(In reply to Addison Phillips from comment #4) > Looks healthy to me. Thanks.
Now back-ported to 5.0. https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/4643a73280b378233548ecec2949361aefa8605f
The I18N WG is also satisfied by this. Closing the related issue in tracker.