[Bug 9546] New: computing atom:updated

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=9546

           Summary: computing atom:updated
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec bugs
        AssignedTo: dave.null@w3.org
        ReportedBy: julian.reschke@gmx.de
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org
                CC: ian@hixie.ch, mike@w3.org, public-html@w3.org


The computation of the atom:updated timestamp for *updated* entries (see 
<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/rfc4287.html#rfc.section.4.2.15>) 
surprisingly depends on the presence of <ins>/<del> markup (see 
<http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/interactive-elements.html#atom>, Step 15/13).

There's nothing really *wrong* about that, but I think the specification 
needs to clarify that if you don't use <ins>/<del> (with timestamps) on 
an updated entry, the generated atom:updated will be incorrect.

Furthermore, Step 15/15:

"If publication date and update date both still have no value, then let 
them both value a value that is a valid global date and time string 
representing the global date and time of the moment that this algorithm 
was invoked."

appears to handle the case where no date information is available at 
all, letting it default to the current date. Again, generating feeds 
where atom:updated varies with every run of the algorithm seems to be a 
bad idea to me and supports the argument that producing output for 
insufficient input data is problematic.

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Received on Saturday, 17 April 2010 10:13:04 UTC