Behrooz

This was posted in reply to a question of mine in August (hope it helps):

> On Aug 23, 5:04 pm, Michael Nosal <[email protected]> wrote:
> Timeline comes with support for Gregorian calendar support. Other calendars
> would require you to write custom javascript, namely an EtherPainter and a
> DateLabeller, for each calendar type you wish to use.
> 
> If you look at timeline_2.3.1/src/webapp/api/scripts/ext/japanese-eras.js you
> can see an example of what is required to support a different calendar style.
> 
> Each band can display one EtherPainter at a time, and use one labeller at a
> time.
> 
> You can have a timeline with multiple bands, each with a different calendar
> type. Or you can use one band and dynamically change the calendar type shown,
> such as through a dropdown.
> 
> --Mike
> 
> On Aug 20, 2011, at 10:56 AM, StephenBD wrote:
> 
>> I'm new, so sorry if this has been covered somewhere and I have failed
>> to find it.
>> 
>> What is the support for multiple calendar calibrations, such as
>> gregorian, julian, hebrew, islamic etc dates? Can more than one
>> calibration be shown at once?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Stephen

Stephen


On 29/09/2011 11:28, "Behrooz Afghahi" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to extend the timeline code to also support Jalali Calendar.
> what I need to do is to alter the presentation of the time to render
> dates, months, ... in Jalali. the back end is not important at this
> time, everything can be handled in Gregorian and get converted to
> jalali before presenting them to the user. I'm not that good with
> javascript and wanted to ask you guys to point me in the right
> direction, where should I start and what files need to change.

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