On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Allen Wirfs-Brock <[email protected]> wrote: > Note that ISO 8601 says that formatting simplifications > such as leaving out the T is permitted with mutual agreement between the > parties interchanging a data. It isn't clear who the other party is that > Ecma-262 could reach such an agreement with.
I think I disagree with the premise that a careful reading of the vaguer parts of ISO 8601 is likely to help. ES and HTML each specify a date-time syntax already (each with a *non-normative* reference to ISO 8601). I'm just suggesting that they specify the same one, for consistency and interoperability. They're nearly identical already. >> Can ES adopt these changes? It seems to me HTML and JS might as well >> have the same rules for this sort of thing. > > Or maybe we should both just stick to a valid subset of ISO 8601. Do you mean: achieve consistency by having HTML retract its extensions to ISO 8601? I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed. > Like I said above, I think it would be fine for there to be a spec. that > adds additional browser implementation spec. format extensions for > Date.parse. Creating a new and separate standard over a few minor date-time syntax tweaks sounds like overkill. -j _______________________________________________ es-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/es-discuss
