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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#date-and-time-state Comment: how about presenting date and time in local format to the user? Posted from: 88.152.254.229 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6) AppleWebKit/534.24 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/11.0.696.3 Safari/534.24
It would indeed be a good idea, which is precisely why the spec allows it. The format of the input's value is only required to be used to actually send data from the form - the browser is free to present the input's value to the user in whatever friendly way it wants.
mass-move component to LC1