[whatwg] <time>

[Julian Reschke]

Robert J Burns wrote:
> ...
> Let us keep in mind that the HTML5 draft does not reference ISO 8601. It 
> also already reaches way beyond ISO 8601 and claims to handle dates all 
> the way back to 0000-01-01 whereas ISO 8601 only handles dates between 
> 1582 and 9999. So HTML5 already takes on the task of specifying dates 
> ...

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Years>:

"The standard permits expansion to, for example, represent years before 
1582 or after 9999, but only by prior agreement between the sender and 
the receiver."

BR, Julian