On 02/23/2014 01:42 AM, Stephan Hradek wrote:
Sorry, Anton, but sometimes I have the slight feeling that you tend to
overcomplicate things. ;)
As far as I can make out, date and date processing *is* complicated.
Do you anywhere do date calculations? No? So why do you require your
datefields to be "real" dates then? Why not simply use smple text fields
and follow the ISO Standard and enter dates as 3 numbers, dash seperated
as Year-Month-Day?
I'm not sure what you mean by "date calculations".
Firstly, within any story thread three is going to be ordering - call it
sorting - by date. The internal representation of dates seems to be a
bignum so that such comparisons can be made.
I mentioned this is for writing stories.
no doubt you've seen things in novels that red something like "three
days later". Is that what you are talking about?
On the other hand, IF you do date calculations please come up with a
good definition how you want dates before 1582 to be interpreted.
The issue is how they are to be interpreted, the issue is crossing that
boundary.
So long as a story line thread stays one side or the other it doesn't
matter. This is a story/novel we're talking about, not historical
research for a published doctorate! And its a 'first cut' of the
application.
What I'm concerned about is the UI, not the historic accuracy.
Or
let's say, if your story is located in Greece, how a date before 1923 is
to be interpreted. And what about the Armenian calendar or the buddhist
one? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
Now you are the one getting complicated.
Heck, what about the Vulcan and Klingon calendars, stardates and more?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate - no consistency!
http://starchive.cs.umanitoba.ca/?stardates/
http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Vulcan_calendar
Heck, writing fantasy, for example, we know time doesn't pass the same
way in Fairyland as it does in the mundane world.
I don't need this. I don't need any of this. What I need is simply a
consistent and easy to use UI.
What I'm seeing and what I've posted is that this field and the parsing
with the built in Date.parse() is inconsistent. I post one date string
in the edit dialogue fields and I get something different when its
viewed. I can live with the 'off by one' error Eric mentions. That's
easy to adjust to. The inconsistency isn't.
As I said
I edit in the string "January 26, 2011 13:51:50" [...]
But what gets displayed at "done" is
14th Nov 2620 22:50
However when I go back to edit more, once again there is
"January 26, 2011 13:51:50"
So long as there is that kind of inconsistency this is crazy and unusable.
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When what you are doing isn't working, you tend to do more of the same
and with greater intensity.
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