$tw.utils.stringifyDate(new Date("20201016232045362"));
On Monday, February 8, 2021 at 10:04:03 PM UTC-5 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
> Tones, you would think, but adding the quotation marks didn't change the
> result, and it does appear that (single) square brackets are OK, for
> instance this is fine:
>
> \define testbrackets(one, two) $one$ | $two$
> <<testbrackets [UTC]YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX another>>
>
> (Double square brackets makes the YYYY part bleed into the *two* parameter,
> though, because that's one way of quoting a parameter.)
>
> Mark, this was an intriguing possibility, but I opened the tiddler in a
> text editor and it actually says:
>
> created: NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaN
>
> So it does appear to actually be the text that TiddlyWiki saved in the
> field.
>
> Maybe the only way to answer this one is by diving into the source code to
> see what special logic happens when the created field is set. Not that it
> really matters a whole lot. Just my overactive drive to understand exactly
> why everything doesn't work speaking here. :-)
>
> On Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 11:00:38 PM UTC-6 Mark S. wrote:
>
>> If you clear the created field in a tiddler, save, and then open it
>> again, you'll see the NaNa... displayed. So this seems to be what the field
>> displays when it is empty or contains text it can't interpret. You can
>> change !!created to !!myfield and then indeed see the literal contents of
>> your macro displayed.
>>
>> On Sunday, February 7, 2021 at 9:29:43 AM UTC-8 Soren Bjornstad wrote:
>>
>>> While trying to create a button that resets the *created* date on a
>>> tiddler, I absentmindedly tried the following:
>>>
>>> \define now-timestamp() <<now [UTC]YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX>>
>>> <$button set="!!created" setTo=<<now-timestamp>>>
>>> Created Now
>>> </$button>
>>>
>>> Now, I'm aware this snippet doesn't work and can't be expected to
>>> because the contents of *now-timestamp* aren't wikified when the macro
>>> call is being used as a transcluded widget-attribute value. I've since
>>> produced a correct version. However, I'm still confused about the result of
>>> clicking the button: the *created* field was set to
>>> NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaN. I'm puzzled by what kind of calculation the
>>> *setTo* attribute of the $button widget is doing that's able to create
>>> a bunch of concatenated NaNs. I would have expected to simply get the
>>> literal text <<now [UTC]YYYY0MM0DD0hh0mm0ssXXX>> in the field.
>>>
>>> Is there something special about the *created* field in this regard?
>>>
>>
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