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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global-dates-and-times Comment: "best representation" does not define how to normalize decimal part of second Posted from: 81.234.240.182 by philip@foolip.org
For example, what is the "best representation" of these dates: 2010-01-01T01:02:03.0Z 2010-01-01T01:02:03.0100Z 2010-01-01T01:02:03.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999Z (something that can't be represented exactly be any integeger or float type) ?
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: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Re comment 1 respectively: 2010-01-01T01:02:03-00:00 2010-01-01T01:02:03.01-00:00 2010-01-01T01:02:03.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999-00:00 I'm happy to add more constraints on this if you like. What constraints would you like?
Checked in as WHATWG revision r5848. Check-in comment: Clarify what the best representation of a datetime is. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5847&to=5848
mass-moved component to LC1