[whatwg] [wf2] Leap seconds, dates in the past

[Henri Sivonen]

On Aug 18, 2006, at 12:57, Gervase Markham wrote:

> Could we perhaps make the functions which do date calculation and
> differencing pluggable?

Sounds like architecture astronautics to me.

> That way, you could have a calendar widget that defaulted to Gregorian
> but could be hacked by specialist web pages to display other sorts of
> calendar.

I expect a widget designed for choosing Gregorian dates to be  
unsuited for arbitrary calendars.

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