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Bug 22384 - The client should be allowed to specify the date format, restricting to YYYY-MM-DD isn't good for usability.
Summary: The client should be allowed to specify the date format, restricting to YYYY-...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-06-16 19:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-06-21 16:26 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-06-16 19:52:07 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dates-and-times
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dates-and-times
Referrer: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/forms/constraintvalidation/

Comment:
The client should be allowed to specify the date format, restricting to
YYYY-MM-DD isn't good for usability.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-06-21 16:26:58 UTC 
This format is only for the wire, not for the user interface, so usability is orthogonal as far as I can tell.

For details, see: http://whatwg.org/html#input-author-notes

Please reopen if this isn't clear. Thanks.