to list as well
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2008/4/24 Subject: Re: [whatwg] Expanding datetime To: WeBMartians <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2008/4/24 WeBMartians <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Whether or not providing a means to specify dates before the Gregorian Reform or before the beginning of the first millennium will have a business effect is difficult to determine. One thing that can be said is that the applications which would be enabled certainly won't exist if the facilities are not present. > Currently, the extreme datetime values (as opposed to the strings) can be specified in Javascript. Producing the corresponding datetime strings from such values should be mandatory. That argues in favor of proper "round trip" handling: the conversion of extreme datetime strings should be available too. What's ODF do? They've dealt with this problem, surely. - d.