[whatwg] Time Parsing

[Ian Hickson]

On Wed, 11 Jan 2012, Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> > On 2011-06-15 07:55, Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> > > > This should also only allow up to 3 digits representing 
> > > > milliseconds. If there are 4 or more digits (microseconds or 
> > > > beyond), the spec should state that the remaining digits should be 
> > > > truncated.
> > > 
> > > Why?
> > 
> > Because the Date object can only handle precision to 3 decimal places, 
> > and implementations interpret times like "00:59:59.9999" as 
> > "00:59:59.999" instead of rounding it up to "01:00:00.000"
> 
> Fair enough. Done.

To elaborate, what I did was make it non-conforming, and define how to map 
fractional milliseconds to Date objects. I didn't actually make the 
parsing algorithm itself truncate the value, so theoretically if someone 
has non-conforming content with values with fractional milliseconds that 
is processed by software that isn't based on JS, it could still support 
those values.

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