Anne van Kesteren (2013-07-17T22:37:39.000Z)
domenic at domenicdenicola.com (2013-07-24T00:42:48.807Z)
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Brendan Eich <brendan at mozilla.com> wrote: > Anne van Kesteren wrote: >> Right, but we all use a number (and newer specs reflect that). Per >> your explanation above that makes sense and I guess we should continue >> to do that then. Not sure if startTime can still be changed. > > I hope so. At the very least, can you forward my reply to the editors > responsible for those Date uses? https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22714 (I'm not aware of usage beyond HTML, but I'll be on the lookout.) Having gone through all this, for the case I was considering it for it still seems relevant and the questions remain. Namely, communicating to the end-user notification system at what point an event for which the notification is generated will be happening or has happened. And exposing the communicated time back to the developer.