The built-in date format (<<now>>) and filter operators only work with dates after 1900. So this this might be a good case for making your own date fields with yyyy-mm-dd format which can then be sorted sanely and used with the compare operator.
On Tuesday, July 14, 2020 at 7:42:02 PM UTC-7, Scott Kingery wrote: > > Tony, thanks for your thoughts and tips as always. I think I'll just start > an empty wiki and see where things lead using these idea. > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 7:00 PM TW Tones <> wrote: > >> Scott, >> >> I have not developed any historical tiddlywiki's but I have spent a lot >> of time in personal organisers. From this I have a set of key methods I >> use. I will dump a few here which we can explore further. >> >> - Yes, set dates in custom date fields and have at least start and >> end dates, >> - Keep created and Modified to mean what they mean, created the >> tiddler and modified the tiddler - this is useful information don't >> compromise your future by changing their meaning >> - if both dates are the same consider it a mile stone >> - If their is not end date then it marks a new era that has note close >> - If it has no start date we are not sure when it started >> - Add another date field perhaps for recognised dates >> - You could use a plugin like http://kixam.github.io/TW5-datePicker/ >> however >> more for this century (needs moment.js plugin as well see notes) >> - Allow dates to be entered manually as well as selected from the list >> - Keep as many dates as possible compatible with tiddlywiki's date >> serial number, even f you zero fill the rest of the serial number >> - This allows you to continue to use operators and sort etc.. >> - There is at least one visual timeline tool eg >> http://emkayonline.github.io/tw5visjs/ >> - A lot of the people pursuing genealogical tiddlywiki's need dates >> and some very old dates so maps to historical records. >> >> If you are taking records that become history there are more tricks >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/FjB9P5xo-iI/unsubscribe. >> To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c1b31074-4a7f-4eef-9f00-f3a067d26671o%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c1b31074-4a7f-4eef-9f00-f3a067d26671o%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/bc15433f-5997-459d-a3fc-50646508770eo%40googlegroups.com.
