I just found this well-done example, http://blogs.sun.com/vipul/resource/SolarSPOT2/similetimeplot.html
They use this date-time format: 2009-02-12 15:10:00. Good enough for me! Thanks again. - John ************************************************** John Callahan Geospatial Application Developer Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 Tel: (302) 831-3584 Email: [email protected] http://www.dgs.udel.edu ************************************************** John Callahan wrote: > Thanks Stefano. Will do. > > Do you know of any examples that use hourly/minutely data? The > examples on http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/ have only daily > resolution. I thought I've seen some in the past but can't locate > them now. Thanks. > > - John > ************************************************** > John Callahan > Geospatial Application Developer > Delaware Geological Survey, University of Delaware > 227 Academy St, Newark DE 19716-7501 > Tel: (302) 831-3584 > Email: [email protected] > http://www.dgs.udel.edu > ************************************************** > > > Stefano Mazzocchi wrote: >> John Callahan wrote: >> >>> What is the proper (most efficient or preferred) format for using dates >>> in Timeplot? >>> >>> I have several time series text/cvs files with separate columns for >>> year, month, day, hour, minute. (Much of my data is hourly or >>> sub-hourly.) Would it be best to... >>> >>> 1) load the data as is and then process through javascript to merge >>> strings or use something like "new Date(Date.UTC(2008,0,17,20,00,00,0))." >>> >>> 2) pre-process the data to create another column with an efficient >>> format, maybe as "1995-02-04 10:20:01Z" or "1995-02-04T10:20:01+5:00"? >>> >>> 3) something else? >>> >> >> Timeplot's data import is not as flexible as I'd love it to be, so #2 is >> probably your best option right now. Look at the examples to see what >> format timeplot expects you to have your dates in. >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
