Ciao TonyM Thanks for your concern. But I don't think it is an issue in the particular use case. E.g. excerpts of scripts written in 1957. Works fine. That dating identifies them well without need of an additional field.
User created Tiddler dating would work as normal. I can't see a problem? In any case, I intended the OP to be about better understanding the limits on dates in TW. I'm interested in that. Best wishes TT On Thursday, 13 February 2020 11:11:06 UTC+1, TonyM wrote: > > TT, > > I advise against this, use a new field for the dates you want to back > date. I do not think this additional field is unneeded, on the contrary it > is needed in my view. > > Why? > > Because created date is an important record of when the tiddler was first > created. One day it may get you out of a pickle because you can search for > all this tiddlers you created in a batch on a particular date. It also > supports recently created searches and a lot more potentially. > > I am happy to share the tools and methods to make use of an additional > date field. > > In the same vein I put a journal-date field on my journals since the title > is human readable it is useful having a date serial field for date range > manipulation and more. In this case I may create a log entry for a past > date and when I did this it is captured in the created date. I could list > all journals that were "post dated" created after the day on which they > represent. > > Just a view point I feel duty bound to share. > > Regards > Tony > > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 7:12:52 PM UTC+11, TiddlyTweeter wrote: >> >> As part of creating tiddlers in "raw" format for direct insertion into TW >> I am manipulating the "created" date. >> >> My question is this ... >> >> *What is the EARLIEST date you can enter? * >> >> >> I assume there will be a date calculation stats from in TW? (JS?) >> >> FYI, the way I am using it is to record historical dates without having >> to use an additional unneeded field. >> >> Any help appreciated! >> >> Best wishes >> TT >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/09e3538c-9016-43db-8e67-8cf5d4ab148b%40googlegroups.com.
