[whatwg] internationalization/localization

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, fantasai wrote:
>>
>> Making:
>>
>>    <p>The boat trip will be on 04/12/05.</p>
>>
>> ...render the date in the user's locale.
>
> Ah. You mean something like
>
>    <p>The boat trip will be on
>      <date format="compact">2005-12-04</date>.</p>
> or
>    <p>The boat trip will be on
>      <date format="compact" iso="2005-12-04">04/12/05</date>.</p>
> ?

I haven't thought about the specifics yet. There have been various
proposals on the list (they are still on my list of things to go through).

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