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Bug 15705 - There is already a perfectly good standard for datetimes: ISO 8601. Why are you reinventing something that works?
Summary: There is already a perfectly good standard for datetimes: ISO 8601. Why are y...
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: 2012-01-25 06:15 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:49 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2012-01-25 06:15:02 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#global-dates-and-times
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#global-dates-and-times

Comment:
There is already a perfectly good standard for datetimes: ISO 8601. Why are
you reinventing something that works?

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-01-25 23:26:43 UTC 
Because ISO8601 is not "perfectly" good.