OK, things are good now. I had copied the date format from a PHP
example that is (apparently) out of date. It looks like this is how
to do it properly:
date("r", $event_date)
Maybe you could add the PHP example to the wiki page?
-Ian
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 1:09 PM, LarryK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> I used the IE7 debugging environment to discover the problem:
> The Date/Time parser in IE 7 can't understand your date time format,
> eg
> 09 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT-0500
>
> So all of your events (on IE) are ending up with null dates and thus
> don't show on the Timeline.
>
> I suggest that you try putting slashes in between.
>
> Or use the suggested format from the docs:
> "May 20 1961 00:00:00 GMT-0600" (see the jfk example xml file)
>
> A better alternative is to use iso8601 style dates
> Invoke the iso8601 parser by changing the <data> element to be
> <data date-time-format="iso8601">
>
> I've updated the wiki with details on how to use this format:
> http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/wiki/Timeline_EventSources
>
> Thanks for the interesting problem report.
>
> Larry
> ps. Remember to switch to the bundled Javascript files on your own
> server once you have everything working--it will be much faster than
> pulling from the code repository.
>
>
> On Nov 10, 11:54 am, "Ian Katz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> @Larry: Thanks for the heads up on your busy schedule; I figured that
>> was the case. I appreciate your help you are providing under those
>> circumstances.
>>
>
> >
>
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