Am Sonntag, 23. Februar 2014 08:16:55 UTC+1 schrieb Anton Aylward: > > 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.
Not at all, if you stay consistant with your strings. > I'm not sure what you mean by "date calculations". […] > 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? > Exactly! You will only need dates as numbers, when you want to calculate the differences between dates or want to add or substract days. Firstly, within any story thread three is going to be ordering - call it > sorting - by date. As I said: Stay consistant with your date formats using something like ISO8601 and you're fine with sorting. > The internal representation of dates seems to be a > bignum so that such comparisons can be made. > Forget about the internal representation if you don't need calculation. > > So long as a story line thread stays one side or the other it doesn't > matter. You came up with the year 63 which is clearly far befor the gregorian calendar ;) > What I'm concerned about is the UI, not the historic accuracy. > What I'm concerned about is that you want to use something which is not appropriate for the purpose you want to use it for. -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
