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Bug 25273 - Make datetime formats unambiguous
Summary: Make datetime formats unambiguous
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 editorial
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Reported: 2014-04-05 15:32 UTC by Evert
Modified: 2015-06-17 15:03 UTC (History)
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Description Evert 2014-04-05 15:32:50 UTC 
The examples given for the datetime attribute of the time element use formats like:
"<time>2011-11-12</time>"
However, both 11 and 12 fall within the range of months, so for those of us who use different datetime formats in everyday life it is not clear which is the month and which is the day. So change it to e.g. either:
2011-11-25 or 2011-25-11 whichever is the case.
Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-06-17 15:03:14 UTC 
The linked-to definitions of "A valid date string" etc. in the spec already make it quite clear that the format is YYYY-MM-DD. People need to read the spec text, not just the examples.