I’ve made some further adjustments to support working with negative dates:
https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#DateFormat:%5B%5BDate%20Fields%5D%5D%20DateFormat <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#DateFormat:[[Date Fields]] DateFormat> Let me know how it goes, Best wishes Jeremy. > On 30 Nov 2020, at 19:19, Jeremy Ruston <jeremy.rus...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >> <mailto: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/400569BD-83D3-49B0-A06B-99C30310A1A0%40gmail.com.
