Thank you. It helped a lot and now its working great.
Note that the date format used in *exhibit* timeline was
not iso8601, but 'yyyy-mm-dd' style.
Thus the final working code was as following.
---
Natsuhiko Mizutani
<script>
var months = {
"jan": "01", "feb": "02", "mar": "03", "apr": "04", "may":
"05", "jun": "06", "jul": "07", "aug": "08", "sep": "09", "oct": "10",
"nov": "11", "dec": "12",
"january": "01", "february": "02", "march": "03", "april":
"04", "june": "06", "july": "07", "august": "08", "september": "09",
"october": "10", "november": "11", "december": "12",
};
Exhibit.Functions["bibtex-date"] = {
f: function(args) {
var results = new Exhibit.Set();
args[0].forEachValue(function(year) {
if (args[1].size == 0) {
try {
var d = year;
if (d != null) results.add(d);
} catch (e) {}
} else {
args[1].forEachValue(function(month) {
month = month.toLowerCase();
if (month in months) {
try {
var d = year + "-" + months[month]
+ "-01";
if (d != null) results.add(d);
} catch (e) {}
}
});
}
});
return new Exhibit.Expression._Collection(results, "date");
}
};
</script>
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