9519 2010-04-14 15:11:58 +0000 Is it me, or is this a big deal not to support dates before year one? 2010-10-04 13:59:27 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other RESOLVED NEEDSINFO http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global-dates-and-times P3 normal LC 1 contributor ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 35028 0 contributor 2010-04-14 15:11:58 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global-dates-and-times Comment: Is it me, or is this a big deal not to support dates before year one? Posted from: 65.30.190.83 35049 1 ian 2010-04-15 06:43:50 +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: Did Not Understand Request Change Description: no spec change Rationale: Doesn't seem like a big deal... they didn't even use the same calendar back then. You don't need a localising feature to refer to dates BCE, just put them inline.