On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > I did some searching through the archives, but didn't find anything at > all that talked about this. Out of curiousity, was there a reason that > datetime doesn't store/send it's value as a unix timestamp? True, the > standard unixtime unit is insufficient for representing a useful range > of dates, but systems are gradually moving toward representing unixtime > with a 64-bit integer.
The main reason for using the human-readable form is that we want the value="" attribute to be human-writable, and we want the value="" attribute value to be round-trippable in down-level clients. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
