[tw] Re: can I display date and time in the head

2009-08-08 Thread rtimwest
Eric Shulman's Shulman'sDigitalClock plugin alone can do this, depending on where you want it... I'm using it with my own code to display the date in dot format in conjunction with (Swatch) Internet Time, but it can display ordinary date/time formats without my plugin: www.rtimwest.com ...if

[tw] Re: can I display date and time in the head

2009-08-08 Thread rtimwest
Eric Shulman's DigitalClock plugin alone can do this, depending on where you want it... I'm using it with my own code to display the date in dot format in conjunction with (Swatch) Internet Time, but it can display ordinary date/time formats without my plugin: www.rtimwest.com ...if that's

[tw] Re: Steps toward better documentation: requests, suggestions, ideas, wishlists

2009-07-12 Thread rtimwest
I'm going to throw in my two cents- I promise I'll leave it at that. I have done just that on other issues. I've only been using TW intensively for a couple of years, and as I've said elsewhere I bounced off of it a few times- repeatedly became interested because people I respected were

[tw] Re: How does the store work and where do i find out about it? TiddlyFan mega stuck

2009-06-17 Thread rtimwest
I'm a noob here and haven't contributed much, but for whatever it's worth, I have to agree with Morris on this one (and we haven't been shy about disagreeing on other subjects). I've been a professional programmer on private and government projects for 23 years, and I nonetheless found the

[tw] Re: Unusual implementation situation

2009-06-09 Thread rtimwest
Is there any capability to scan documents into your systems? Still may not be practical, but stands a better chance than typing the changes in. I sympathize with the circumstances, not long ago I declined to renew a contact largely because of an even more ridiculous situation: we had NO access

Re: The end of NET? (was: [tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.)

2009-06-06 Thread rtimwest
On Jun 6, 11:10 am, Dirk Zemisch dzemi...@googlemail.com wrote: Hallo rtimwest, rtimwest rtimw...@gmail.com schrieb am 04.06.2009 16:17 Uhr: I contacted the folks at New Earth Time through their web page about the apparent conflict between the GPL(s), Creative Commons License

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-06-04 Thread rtimwest
On May 24, 11:16 pm, rtimwest rtimw...@gmail.com wrote: Bare bones/pre-Alpha New Earth Time version of plugin done, works in DigitalClock for real-time, works in journal entries, currently but temporarily running on my site. I'll incorporate this functionality in the final version, but I'm

[tw] Re: Title Right?

2009-05-30 Thread rtimwest
I must be doing something stupid. Doesn't seem to do anything... On May 30, 1:38 am, Eric Shulman elsdes...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to get my search bar to look likehttp://tw.lewcid.org/. I figured out how to get it into the title area but not how to right justify

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-29 Thread rtimwest
Morris, I appreciate your willingness to work with a time system you don't believe in.  And your animosity toward base sixty is obvious, so I appreciate it will take time before you are ready and open minded enough to move much further into this project ;-) As I've said, I'm happy to help,

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-29 Thread rtimwest
Some of us are...  even to sending posts more than once;-) Apparently, at least some of the time, when I attempt to post and it gives me an error saying the session has timed out it has posted anyway, despite the message. Just happened again. Why the session should time out here, and gmail

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-29 Thread rtimwest
Some of us are...  even to sending posts more than once;-) Apparently, at least some of the time, when I attempt to post and it gives me an error saying the session has timed out it has posted anyway, despite the message. Just happened again. Why the session should time out here, and gmail

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-29 Thread rtimwest
Sorry, just a test message- trying to figure out why it's double- posting EVERYTHING, error messages or not. T. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-29 Thread rtimwest
Sorry, just a test message- trying to figure out why it's double- posting EVERYTHING, error messages or not. T. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-28 Thread rtimwest
really want this clock, there must be a fix or another way.  Maybe Eric can explain and help. Morris On May 27, 9:11 pm, rtimwest rtimw...@gmail.com wrote: Morris, Ok, it's done, and again (temporarily) running the clock in the title of my site, so you can easily check the behavior

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-28 Thread rtimwest
Hey, We're sort of back to repeating the same points. Nothing happens in the natural world 24 times in a solar day, The sun transits 15° of longitude 24 times during this rather natural occurrence; which, as you rightly say, is a solar day . The solar day is one complete rotation of the

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-28 Thread rtimwest
Hey, We're sort of back to repeating the same points. Nothing happens in the natural world 24 times in a solar day, The sun transits 15° of longitude 24 times during this rather natural occurrence; which, as you rightly say, is a solar day . The solar day is one complete rotation of the

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-27 Thread rtimwest
Morris, No problem. I think I sort of disagree on a philosophical basis- I mean, what's the point of having a new time system with more intrinsic precision if you're then going to reduce it to the precision of the OLD system? But, hey, it's your site... and it does make it more reasonable to use

[tw] Re: NewEarthTime comments and bugs 2009.05.27 at 040°38'05

2009-05-27 Thread rtimwest
Morris, Ok, it's done, and again (temporarily) running the clock in the title of my site, so you can easily check the behavior there to see if it's what you want without having to install it. http://www.rtimwest.com T. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

[tw] Re: Visibility issue

2009-05-26 Thread rtimwest
Thanks, both... I'm playing with it now... may be overkill for me. Actually, the tiddler body text doesn't seem any larger at all. Titles, yes, but the text seems the same. I gather much of this formatting is to go into portrait mode, which I don't need at all. Also, from the comments it seems

[tw] Visibility issue

2009-05-25 Thread rtimwest
Is there a theme or something to help TW's usability on small screens? I've tried to use TW on my Nokia 810 a few times, and it works well enough, but it's pretty hard to read- the default fonts are very small, compared to the appearance of any dedicated portable OS. Thanks.

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-24 Thread rtimwest
Bare bones/pre-Alpha New Earth Time version of plugin done, works in DigitalClock for real-time, works in journal entries, currently but temporarily running on my site. I'll incorporate this functionality in the final version, but I'm shifting my attention to that now unless there are serious

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-24 Thread rtimwest
Morris, On May 24, 6:08 pm, Morris Gray msg...@symbex.net.au wrote: Hi Tim, I can't seem to find what thread I read that sent me to your site maybe I dreamed it.  This will have to do. NET is a single time on its own to the exclusion of all others. Well now... guess it's a good thing for

[tw] Javascript gurus...

2009-05-23 Thread rtimwest
Noob here. In testing a (user-entered) string to see if it's (potentially) numeric, somewhat to my surprise the string methods parseInt() and parseFloat() will return a number if the first part of the string converts successfully, ignoring trailing non-numeric characters (and not making an index

[tw] Re: Javascript gurus...

2009-05-23 Thread rtimwest
Strictly development-related issues should be discussed on the dev group: I considered doing that, but frankly I hesitated because I have no idea what many of the posts over there are about or what their norms are, and I had a feeling that basic, not-TW-specific questions might not be

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-22 Thread rtimwest
I was in such a rush yesterday I'm not sure exactly what I did, but my posts didn't show up for some reason. NBD (er, no worries) Morris- as I mentioned, so far you're half of the demand, and the other half is running a copy of the current plugin, and is happy for the moment. I need to do the

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-22 Thread rtimwest
All, Are there places in the world where the difference between local time and Greenwich in hours is ever not an integer? Thanks. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-22 Thread rtimwest
Never mind, there are. According to Wikipedia, Delhi is in one. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups TiddlyWiki group. To post to this group, send email to TiddlyWiki@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe

[tw] Re: now Alternate Time Systems in TW- major thread drift.

2009-05-21 Thread rtimwest
Ok, having backed off and gotten just a little bit of perspective on this, I think a major re-think is in order. It hasn't escaped my attention that out of about 6.5 billion people, exactly two have expressed interest in using this program ... and one of them wants another time system.

[tw] Re: PrettyLink to a macro.. Swatch Internet Time in TiddlyWiki

2009-05-20 Thread rtimwest
Eric, Thanks for taking a look. I'll respond to this and then move any further discussion to the other section. I think we're very much on the same page; this first (pre-Alpha) version does leverage Date.formatString, n times for however many @@ Biel-date strings (probably should be once for

[tw] Title Right?

2009-05-20 Thread rtimwest
I've got a non-techie question.. I did a Google image search, and virtually nobody's TiddlyWiki site (always excluding yours, Eric) has much of anything up in the upper right corner, title or subtitle areas. Is it just that there's no convenient (non-programmer) way to float something to the

[tw] Re: Title Right?

2009-05-20 Thread rtimwest
just mostly just wrappers for the core macros, no low- level stuff. Tim On May 20, 9:40 pm, rtimwest rtimw...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a non-techie question.. I did a Google image search, and virtually nobody's TiddlyWiki site (always excluding yours, Eric) has much of anything up

[tw] Re: Title Right?

2009-05-20 Thread rtimwest
Dirk, You could, but so far it doesn't bore. So please stay here for the lurkers around... ;-) Well, okay, but remember you asked for it... discussions of time systems can get truly Byzantine, sometimes even heated (which seems odd for such a dry subject, but ask me how I know...), and tend

[tw] Re: PrettyLink to a macro.. Swatch Internet Time in TiddlyWiki

2009-05-19 Thread rtimwest
Curious that you should bring up just that subject in response to my own one-and-only post. I wasn't going to mention this yet, and don't know if there's any interest out there, but since you brought up the newJournal macro, here goes... Some of you are aware that I've been working on combining

[tw] PrettyLink to a macro..

2009-05-08 Thread rtimwest
First post, so go easy guys.. ;-) I've always been impressed with TW, I've been a few for years for my own purposes, but just recently published a couple of pages, and now I'd like to get a bit more sophisticated. I'm a programmer, but not with these tools, yet. I don't know if I'm missing some