[whatwg] Parsing RFC3339 constructs

[Ian Hickson]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Nils Dagsson Moskopp wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 11.08.2009, 07:27 +0000 schrieb Ian Hickson:
> > On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > > Ian Hickson wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Asbjørn Ulsberg wrote:
> > > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:59:11 +0200, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke at gmx.de>
> > > > > wrote:
> > > > > > >   - the literal letters T and Z must be uppercase
> > > > > > Any technical reason why they have to?
> > > > > Any reason why they don't?
> > > > 
> > > > It simplifies processing a tiny amount.
> > > 
> > > So for a tiny win, you change the format?
> > 
> > By a tiny amount, yes.
> 
> It will be interesting to see if parsers choose to also "get" lowercase 
> letters. I'd half-expect that to work, not at least because there may 
> already be RFC-compliant libraries in the wild.

The spec explicitly points out that implementors shouldn't naively use 
ISO8601 libraries.


> So if they do by the time HTML n is the standard, will the uppercase 
> restriction be removed in HTML n+1 ?

HTML5 itself will have to change if the implementations don't implement 
what it says.

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