I was surprised. All the buffered dates show up correctly. I guess the
"[UTC]" designation in the format fixes the offset internally.
-- Mark
On Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 4:02:01 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote:
>
> Mark,
>
> The important bit is to set the *title* to the variable.
>>
>
> Yes, as I said this opens many possibilities. As part of my comprehensive
> review of dates, I used this hack to produce examples of building a date
> from fields/variables and state tiddlers.
>
> This should satisfy the Original post, however I am clarifying the
> standards to use for reliable dates. The below examples can be further
> generalised so one could optionally pass the contents of the wikify text
> field as well.
>
> \define new-date(format:"[UTC]YYYY0MM0DD000000000")
> <$wikify name="date" text="{{!!yyyy}}{{!!mm}}{{!!dd}}0000000" >
> <$view tiddler=<<date>> field="title" format="date" template="$format$"/>
> <$wikify>
> \end
> \define new-date-vars(format:"[UTC]YYYY0MM0DD000000000")
> <$wikify name="date" text="<<year>><<month>><<day>>0000000" >
> <$view tiddler=<<date>> field="title" format="date" template="$format$"/>
> <$wikify>
> \end
> \define new-date-state(format:"[UTC]YYYY0MM0DD000000000")
> <$wikify name="date" text="{{year}}{{month}}{{day}}0000000" >
> <$view tiddler=<<date>> field="title" format="date" template="$format$"/>
> <$wikify>
> \end
>
>
> ;Constructed date
> :Default serial <<new-date>>
> :Selected format <<new-date format:"[UTC] DDD DDth MMM YYYY">>
> ;Time
> :<<new-date format:"0hh:0mm">> Shows your time offset because input time
> is 00:00 ?
> :<<new-date format:"[UTC]0hh:0mm">> Assumes date is a UTC time
>
>
> ;Constructed date from variables
> <$vars
> year=2013
> month=12
> day=15
> >
>
> :Default serial <<new-date-vars>>
> :Selected format <<new-date-vars format:"[UTC] DDD DDth MMM YYYY">>
>
> </$vars>
>
> ;Constructed date from "state tiddlers"
> ::Default serial <<new-date-state>>
> :Selected format <<new-date-state format:"[UTC] DDD DDth MMM YYYY">>
>
> If you use the state tiddlers create a year month and day tiddler.
>
> *If someone is in a negative time zone please test, what is the time
> offset ?*
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
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