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Jason Orendorff (2013-04-25T20:43:26.000Z)

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The HTML spec for parsing date and time values is slightly more lenient than ES.

The differences are:
- HTML allows more-than-4-digit years.
- HTML allows the seconds and milliseconds to be omitted.
- HTML allows the "T" in the middle to be replaced with a single space.

Can ES adopt these changes? It seems to me HTML and JS might as well
have the same rules for this sort of thing.

HTML: 2.4.5.5 Local dates and times
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#local-dates-and-times

ES: 15.9.4.2 Date.parse (string)
https://people.mozilla.com/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-15.9.4.2

ES: 15.9.1.15 Date Time String Format
https://people.mozilla.com/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-15.9.1.15

Some old discussion in Mozilla's bug-tracking system, no real conclusion:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791320

-j

github at esdiscuss.org (2013-07-12T02:27:04.254Z)

The HTML spec for parsing date and time values is slightly more lenient than ES.

The differences are:

- HTML allows more-than-4-digit years.
- HTML allows the seconds and milliseconds to be omitted.
- HTML allows the "T" in the middle to be replaced with a single space.

Can ES adopt these changes? It seems to me HTML and JS might as well
have the same rules for this sort of thing.

HTML: 2.4.5.5 Local dates and times
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/common-microsyntaxes.html#local-dates-and-times

ES: 15.9.4.2 Date.parse (string)
https://people.mozilla.com/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-15.9.4.2

ES: 15.9.1.15 Date Time String Format
https://people.mozilla.com/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-15.9.1.15

Some old discussion in Mozilla's bug-tracking system, no real conclusion:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791320

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