Al and David, hello.
On 2006 Dec 10 , at 19.51, Alasdair Allan wrote:
> Norman Gray wrote:
>> Dates in Timeline's private format (US-style month-day-year with no
>> commas, and just GMT?) seem to be OK, but a standard format would be
>> nice.
>
> It isn't a private format, that's an RFC822 standard time stamp.
Is it? RFC822 (Sect. 5.1) has
date-time = [ day "," ] date time
date = 1*2DIGIT month 2DIGIT
month = "Jan" / "Feb" / "Mar" / "Apr"
/ "May" / "Jun" / "Jul" / "Aug"
/ "Sep" / "Oct" / "Nov" / "Dec"
And RFC2822 (Sect. 3.3) is much the same; neither has month-day-
year. I'd been giving it RFC2822 dates (as it happened, including
the day-of-week) without success. [And thanks, Al, for the sample
code a while back: as you can see, I _have_ been playing with it]
David Huynh wrote:
> Did you specify in your data files that you want iso8601?
No? Aha: a bit of grepping finds Timeline.NativeDateUnit.getParser
in src/webapp/api/scripts/units.js, and -- bingo -- the date-time-
format attribute. I'd found the mentions of the 8601 parser, but
hadn't realised it had to be switched on explicitly. That works:
thanks.
On a separate note, David, Timeline _almost_ works fine in Safari
(and my impression is that it works better now than when I first
tried it). Is there a story here about how you see that
compatibility improving, either through changes from the Apple/Gecko
end, or from the Simile direction?
All the best,
Norman
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