[whatwg] Time Parsing

Lachlan Hunt lachlan.hunt at lachy.id.au
Wed Jun 15 05:26:03 PDT 2011


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"

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