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Bug 8115 - The note on time-zone ranges is too absolute in stating the limits from -12 to +14 and 00/30/45 minutes. Add the word "currently" in to the note.
Summary: The note on time-zone ranges is too absolute in stating the limits from -12 t...
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2009-10-28 13:41 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:46 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2009-10-28 13:41:15 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#global-dates-and-times

Comment:
The note on time-zone ranges is too absolute in stating the limits from -12 to +14 and 00/30/45 minutes. Add the word "currently" in to the note.

Posted from: 82.152.16.158
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-12-08 16:43:09 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: The way the spec is phrased it's pretty clear that it's talking about the range of actual timezones, not the theoretical range. Should the range change, let me know, and I'll update the spec.
Comment 2 Stephen Colebourne 2009-12-09 15:07:21 UTC 
Its not unknown for systems to validate this range too tightly and for there to be difficulties when governments change their rules. But its your call...