Thank you Mike, that helped a lot. Again, great explanation :)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Michael Nosal <mno...@mitre.org> wrote:
>
> On Mar 20, 2012, at 5:19 PM, Steve Pai wrote:
>
> > Michael, another question for you if you don't mind:
> >
> > I'd like to define start/end time in the form: '2000-01-01' rather than
> just year. If I change format in the JSON source file, the timeline appears
> to hit an error while trying to parse it. So, I assumed that we needed to
> leverage the .parseGregorianDateTime function:
> >
> > var deco = new Timeline.SpanHighlightDecorator({
> > startDate :
> Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime(span.start),
> > endDate :
> Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime(span.end),
> > startLabel : span.title,
> > color : span.color
> > });
> >
> > However, this does not seem to work either. Is there another parameter I
> am missing?
> >
> > Steve
>
> This causes lots of confusion for folks.
> parseGregorianDateTime() basically tries to do two things with a date
> string:
> If it's less than 8 chars long, it assumes it is a year value.
> e.g. parseGregorianDateTime will return:
> "1995" -> Sun Jan 1 1995
>
> If it is more than 8 chars long, then it calls the JS Date.parse method.
> This takes dates in the RFC2822 / IETF date syntax:
> "Mon, Dec 25 1995" or "25 Dec 1995" or "December 25, 1995".
>
> Browsers differ in their support of date formats that are not RFC2822. For
> example, Firefox supports a subset of ISO8601 date formats. Firefox will
> parse "1995-12-25", Safari will not. Firefox and Safari will parse
> "12/25/1995" but not "12-25-1995". IE9 supports the ISO8601 date formats.
> If the date format is not ISO8601, then IE will attempt to parse the date
> by using (in their words) "other parsing rules".
>
> So your best bets are to format your dates as "25 Dec 1995" or
> "12/25/1995" if you want to use parseGregorianDateTime.
>
> You say you want to define your dates as "2000-01-01", which is a subset
> of the ISO8601 format.
> You can use Timeline.DateTime.parseIso8601DateTime("1995-12-25").
>
> Hope this helps.
> --Mike
>
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