Independent Date and Time objects/ISO Dates

[Lars T Hansen]

On 5/15/07, mkaply <mozilla at kaply.com> wrote:
>
> In my work with microformats, I'm finding that the Date object is not very
> useful for representing a date without a time. Has any thought been given to
> having separate Date and Time objects?

Some minor discussion last year but nothing serious.  The Date object
represents a time stamp in milliseconds relative to a known time, so
really represents both date and time.  Why is this not adequate?

> In addition, has any thought been giving to allowing the construction of
> Date objects using ISO dates or allowing Date objects to output as ISO
> Dates.

A subset of ISO date format has been incorporated into the proposed
revision, with a requirement that Date.parse must be able to parse it
and Date.toISOString must generate it.

http://developer.mozilla.org/es4/proposals/date_and_time.html

--lars

>
> Thank you.
>
> Mike Kaply
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