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Bug 18262 - 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: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Edward O'Connor
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-18 17:52 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-17 18:58 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 17:52:46 UTC 
This was was cloned from bug 17636 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2012-06-28 18:17:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2012-06-28 18:17:16 +0000 
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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 Edward O'Connor 2012-08-23 20:57:42 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are
satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: No change.
Rationale: 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.)