[giow] (0) Revert r8083, since it leads to weird behaviour worse than…

… just returning a new object each time. (It seems this isn't implemented by anyone yet anyway.) Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=22714 Affected topics: Video and Audio git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@8094 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Jul 26, 2013 · 16c0c59 · 16c0c59
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@@ -28721,14 +28721,10 @@ <h5 id=offsets-into-the-media-resource><span class=secno>4.8.10.6 </span>Offsets
 
   <p>Some video files also have an explicit date and time corresponding to the zero time in the
   <a href=#media-timeline>media timeline</a>, known as the <dfn id=timeline-offset>timeline offset</dfn>. Initially, the
-  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN). Each <a href=#media-element>media element</a>
-  has a <dfn id=current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</dfn>. Whenever a <a href=#media-element>media
-  element</a>'s <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> changes value, the user agent must <a href=#create-a-date-object>create a
-  <code>Date</code> object</a> to represent the new <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a>, and let that
-  new object be the new <a href=#current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</a>.</p>
-
-  <p>The <dfn id=dom-media-startdate title=dom-media-startDate><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return the
-  <a href=#current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</a>.</p>
+  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN).</p>
+
+  <p>The <dfn id=dom-media-startdate title=dom-media-startDate><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return <a href=#create-a-date-object title="create a Date object">a new <code>Date</code> object</a> representing the current
+  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a>.</p>
 
   </div>
 

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -28721,14 +28721,10 @@ interface <dfn id=htmlmediaelement>HTMLMediaElement</dfn> : <a href=#htmlelement
 
   <p>Some video files also have an explicit date and time corresponding to the zero time in the
   <a href=#media-timeline>media timeline</a>, known as the <dfn id=timeline-offset>timeline offset</dfn>. Initially, the
-  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN). Each <a href=#media-element>media element</a>
-  has a <dfn id=current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</dfn>. Whenever a <a href=#media-element>media
-  element</a>'s <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> changes value, the user agent must <a href=#create-a-date-object>create a
-  <code>Date</code> object</a> to represent the new <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a>, and let that
-  new object be the new <a href=#current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</a>.</p>
-
-  <p>The <dfn id=dom-media-startdate title=dom-media-startDate><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return the
-  <a href=#current-timeline-offset-date-object>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</a>.</p>
+  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN).</p>
+
+  <p>The <dfn id=dom-media-startdate title=dom-media-startDate><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return <a href=#create-a-date-object title="create a Date object">a new <code>Date</code> object</a> representing the current
+  <a href=#timeline-offset>timeline offset</a>.</p>
 
   </div>
 

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -30559,14 +30559,11 @@ interface <dfn>HTMLMediaElement</dfn> : <span>HTMLElement</span> {
 
   <p>Some video files also have an explicit date and time corresponding to the zero time in the
   <span>media timeline</span>, known as the <dfn>timeline offset</dfn>. Initially, the
-  <span>timeline offset</span> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN). Each <span>media element</span>
-  has a <dfn>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</dfn>. Whenever a <span>media
-  element</span>'s <span>timeline offset</span> changes value, the user agent must <span>create a
-  <code>Date</code> object</span> to represent the new <span>timeline offset</span>, and let that
-  new object be the new <span>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</span>.</p>
-
-  <p>The <dfn title="dom-media-startDate"><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return the
-  <span>current timeline offset <code>Date</code> object</span>.</p>
+  <span>timeline offset</span> must be set to Not-a-Number (NaN).</p>
+
+  <p>The <dfn title="dom-media-startDate"><code>startDate</code></dfn> attribute must return <span
+  title="create a Date object">a new <code>Date</code> object</span> representing the current
+  <span>timeline offset</span>.</p>
 
   </div>