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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#date-and-time-state-(type=datetime) Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#date-and-time-state-(type=datetime) Comment: This type assumes a Gregorian calendar. Either this should be explicit called out here. Posted from: 67.180.233.222 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5
This bug was cloned to create bug 18268 as part of operation convergence.
This section says "The input element represents a control for setting the element's value to a string representing a specific global date and time", where "global date and time" links to the definition of the term, which says "A global date and time consists of a specific proleptic Gregorian date, consisting of a year, a month, and a day, and a time, consisting of an hour, a minute, a second, and a fraction of a second, expressed with a time-zone offset, consisting of a signed number of hours and minutes" followed by a whole section of more detailed information and examples.