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Bug 16626 - What is startDate when the timeline offset is NaN?
Summary: What is startDate when the timeline offset is NaN?
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
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: 2012-04-04 09:53 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-20 06:22 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-04-04 09:53:58 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/the-video-element.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#dom-media-startdate
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#dom-media-startdate

Comment:
What is startDate when the timeline offset is NaN?

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Comment 1 Philip Jägenstedt 2012-04-04 09:56:07 UTC 
I assume it should be the same as new Date(NaN) or possibly null, but <http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/infrastructure.html#create-a-date-object> doesn't actually define what happens when "a particular time" is NaN.
Comment 2 contributor 2012-07-18 17:18:44 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18110 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 3 contributor 2012-09-20 06:22:36 UTC 
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7382.
Check-in comment: Clarify that Date objects can represent NaN values.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7381&to=7382