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Bug 15668 - Certain localities have weeks starting with sunday, others use monday. Browsers should keep this in mind.
Summary: Certain localities have weeks starting with sunday, others use monday. Browse...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-01-22 03:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:40 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-01-22 03:03:42 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#week-state-(type=week)
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#week-state-(type=week)

Comment:
Certain localities have weeks starting with sunday, others use monday.
Browsers should keep this in mind.

Posted from: 69.141.209.55
User agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.0; U; Edition Next; en) Presto/2.10.238 Version/12.00
Comment 1 Henri Sivonen 2012-01-22 07:52:28 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: By design, HTML supports only ISO weeks, because week numbers are used in the kind of communication one would use forms for mainly in locales that use ISO weeks. The spec doesn't aim for theoretical completeness but for addressing actual use cases.

(It's not just a matter of Monday vs. Sunday. It's also a matter of the numbering rule. Supporting non-ISO weeks would make the feature unwieldy.)