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Bug 17636 - This syntax for valid time strings does not work for other locales. In Italy, they use a "." for the separator instead of a colon. The tags using a time string need to allow for a locale attribute so that the syntax can be determined, OR this syntax needs
Summary: This syntax for valid time strings does not work for other locales. In Italy,...
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: 2012-06-28 18:17 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-20 03:27 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-06-28 18:17:16 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#valid-time-string
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#valid-time-string

Comment:
This syntax for valid time strings does not work for other locales. In Italy,
they use a "." for the separator instead of a colon. The tags using a time
string need to allow for a locale attribute so that the syntax can be
determined, OR this syntax needs to be extended to cover all the variations in
the world.

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Comment 1 contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:49 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 18262 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-07-20 03:27:59 UTC 
The idea is that the on-the-wire format is not locale-specific but always in an unambiguous globally machine-readable format defined basically by ISO. The UI can be locale-specific, but that's up to the UA.

(There's a separate bug about allowing the page to request specific locales' UIs, but that's different.)