Hi Matthew, Yes, you're right that the Jewish History example "factors in" timezone offsets, since that same bubble for me shows a value: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:00:00 GMT (I'm in California, in the PST timezone.)
I've mainly used the Timeline extension from within Exhibit. I remember that it took a little time for me to figure out how to format date-time values. This very instructive posting on the subject might help: http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets/browse_thread/thread/d9237cda1e13b286/c2eaf1fdafc396aa?lnk=gst&q=timezone#c2eaf1fdafc396aa If the link doesn't resolve from this posting, you can access it by inputting "timezone" in the Search this group box. HTH, -Mark On Jan 12, 3:34 am, Matthew Richardson <m...@woodwose.net> wrote: > I've been looking at the timeline widget which appears to have a problem > - whether or not it counts as a bug or a design choice, I'm not sure. > > If you specify a date in the xml without specifying a time it seems to > apply some kind of local or timezone to it, which can make it display at > a different date to that specified. > > For example, if you look at the example Jewish History timline > (http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/jewish-history.html) > one of the last entries 'Bnei Menashe recognized as lost tribe shows up > as occuring at 'Mar 30 2005 17:00:00 GMT' when you click on it in the > timeline, but if you look at the xml, the date is specified as > 'start='Mar 31 2005'. > (http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/religions/jewish.xml) > > I'm seeing the same problem on a timeline I'm building, where some dates > are shifted back 1 hour if they are for events that fall within British > Summer Time for me. > > Is there a way round this I've missed, a deliberate choice (i.e you must > always specify a time with a date), or a bug? > > Thanks, > > Matthew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to simile-widgets@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to simile-widgets+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
