Ciao Eric Very useful notes you wrote to springer!
I increasingly get interested in date handling in TW. Mainly because "created" can be used elegantly to solve a bunch of practical end-user issues. For instance - "created" (once manipulated) can be used to identify things well (TV script year from past; real CV moments etc ...) "Creation" is "foundational" in a naive, very useful, way. It makes immediate sense. Manipulating created date can be very useful. If there is one thing I'd like do it would be to fully document creation date behavior. This is a good start, along with yesterday's comments by you and Mark S. on the absolute date range start. Best wishes TT On Friday, 14 February 2020 04:57:27 UTC+1, Eric Shulman wrote: > > On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 4:30:49 PM UTC-8, springer wrote: >> >> If I happen to create a tiddler in TW5 while timestamps are off, the >> tiddler ends up without a create date. Once I've created it, it seems TW5 >> won't even back-fill the create date to coincide with the first recognized >> modification date (once timestamps are back on). So the only way I've found >> to give it a create date is to clone it and delete the original. That works >> fine if I realize right away, but gives misleading results if I catch it >> significantly later. >> > I do see these reasons not to make these fields easily modifiable (as they >> were in TWC), but then there ought to be more options... > > > Here's a little trick to changing the "created" date on an existing > tiddler: > > 1) edit the desired tiddler > 2) in the "add a new field" controls, enter "created" in the "field name" > input (even though the field already exists!) > 3) in the corresponding "field value" input, enter the desired date using > format "YYYYMMDDhhmmssxxx" (i.e., a 17 digit number) > > notes: > * if you are only concerned with the date (but not the time), you can > enter a value using "YYYYMMDD" and the remaining digits will default to > zeros. > * the date number uses UTC time zone, not the local time zone. > > enjoy, > -e > -- 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/934da917-6b40-4e68-a02c-e718a227f8ab%40googlegroups.com.
