[whatwg] Time Parsing

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Wed Jan 11 15:14:54 PST 2012


On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Lachlan Hunt wrote:
> 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"

Fair enough. Done.

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