Actually, I wish to add in support for the Hijri calendar 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_calendar) and have both the Gregorian and 
Hijri timelines be displayed on the screen simultaneously...

How much of an undertaking would that be? :-)

--Arsalan

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> Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:52:58 +0200
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Adding a custom calendar
> 
> Arsalan,
> 
> There are 2 concepts in Timeline that are related to what you want to do:
> 
> 1. Unit: Each timeline has a single unit, which is by default 
> milliseconds and all the usual Javascript date functionality works with 
> it. The dinosaurs example shows how to use a different unit--million of 
> years:
> 
> 2. Ether labeler: Each band of a timeline has its own ether labeler, 
> which renders labels on that band. The default labeler can render at 
> different intervals like year, month, day, hour, etc. You can have 
> labelers that render other kinds of label, such as the age in years of a 
> person (top band):
>     http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/monet/monet.html
> or the years of a king's reign (top band):
>     http://home.myuw.net/jjcrump/Timelines/JohnItinerary2.html
> 
> If that doesn't suffice to get you started, let us know what sort of 
> calendaring system you would like to implement.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> David
> 
> Arsalan Zaidi wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > How difficult is it to add in a different calendaring system to the 
> > Timeline code? I'd like to be able to have a view with both my custom 
> > calendar and the Gregorian one.
> >
> > Any pointers to docs, similiar efforts and the files to examine would be 
> > appreciaed.
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --Arsalan
> >
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