18267 2012-07-18 17:53:51 +0000 This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called out here, or this type should be rethought to be more inclusive of other calendars.The text "midnight UTC on the morning of the parsed date" should be "the midnight UTC that is 2012-09-13 15:31:26 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG HTML5 spec unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#date-state-(type=date) P3 normal --- 1 contributor dave.null edwin_hoogerbeets mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking robin public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 71000 0 contributor 2012-07-18 17:53:51 +0000 This was was cloned from bug 17640 as part of operation convergence. Originally filed: 2012-06-28 19:13:00 +0000 ================================================================================ #0 contributor@whatwg.org 2012-06-28 19:13:53 +0000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#date-state-(type=date) Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#date-state-(type=date) Comment: This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called out here, or this type should be rethought to be more inclusive of other calendars.The text "midnight UTC on the morning of the parsed date" should be "the midnight UTC that is contained within parsed date" because days start at different times in other calendars.. Posted from: 67.180.233.222 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5 ================================================================================ 73419 1 robin 2012-09-07 12:38:56 +0000 *** Bug 18268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** 73783 2 robin 2012-09-13 15:31:26 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Rationale: As it says in the implementation notes, "Browsers are encouraged to use user interfaces that present dates, times, and numbers according to the conventions of either the locale implied by the input element's language or the user's preferred locale." So it is not only possible to display a UI that is locale aware and can take into account different calendars, converting to the canonical date format (as explained in the Dates section), but actually encouraged. Of course, implementations might not be entirely up to the par on this just yet, but that's for them to fix by building better UIs.