Hi Jutta I’ve been able to make one quick adjustment to fix the handling of dates between 0 and 100AD:
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/fe8606759ebf1db50c57a2e779b086a6d7df2ae6 <https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyWiki5/commit/fe8606759ebf1db50c57a2e779b086a6d7df2ae6> You can try it out on the prerelease here: https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease> I’ll have a look to see if we can do something about handling negative dates correctly. Best wishes Jeremy. > On 30 Nov 2020, at 02:32, TW Tones <anthony.mus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Jutta, > > I have never had to deal with such old dates, but if you primarily just want > to assign years, and no need to check or test months of the year, days of the > month then rather than use a date field perhaps just have a year field? > Basically treat BC as another number in a field. In reality the systems > behind different historical calendars, changes in interpretation, leap years > ands non leap millennia reduce the accuracy of most date system too far back. > To handle this correctly one would need a fit for purpose calendar extension, > but if your resolution is only to the year you could just use a number, and > perhaps a sequence number if something is known to proceed or follow another > in the same year. > > Regards > Tones > > On Sunday, 29 November 2020 at 17:54:25 UTC+11 jutta....@googlemail.com > <http://googlemail.com/> wrote: > Hello Eskha, > > yes, thank you, indeed, the minus works for me, too. It is a bit confusing > because it takes the place of the first year digit, so the earliest year you > can do is -999, but that's fine for my purpose. But I still cannot get the > first century AD to work. Any year with two leading zeroes is interpreted as > 19..Is there a trick for that somehow? > > Thanks, > Jutta > > On Saturday, November 28, 2020 at 9:33:25 PM UTC+1 Eskha wrote: > Hello Jutta, > > What is working for me: I use "Y" format for date and a "-" in front of the > date (eg -200 for 200 BC). > > Best regards, > > Eskha > > Le samedi 28 novembre 2020 à 20:35:53 UTC+1, jutta....@googlemail.com <> a > écrit : > Hi, > > I am trying to get the Timelines plugin to work for my project. The problem > is, that my novel is set in the time of the early Roman empire, so I need my > timeline to be able > to display events from around 40 BC to 20 AD. Is there any way to enter dates > before the year 0? Also, even for the first 100 years AD it does not work. > When my datestring starts with two leading zeros, it always interprets it as > 19.. So when I enter a date like > 00090917 (which would be the date of the battle in the Teutoburg forest), the > timeline wiki renders it as 1909. For the year 0109 it works correctly. > > Are there any solutions for this? If the date format itself does not allow > the dates to be BC, is there a way to use current dates (like, set everything > 2000 years in the future) in the date field so that the macro knows how to > space and order them and then display a text string with the correct date > from another field in the view instead? > > Thanks, > Jutta > > -- > 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/24d8f882-29cf-482e-8f45-4eb747963544n%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/24d8f882-29cf-482e-8f45-4eb747963544n%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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/5D2DB501-8AE5-4D02-B87A-51E58937EE73%40gmail.com.
