Ole Laursen wrote: > The thing is that a good tick generator for the Gregorian calendar > would go about generating ticks differently than a good tick generator > for ordinary scalar values. For instance, if the plot displays half a > year of time, there should be ticks for when the months start instead > of some arbitrary days. >
Take a look at the Datejs.com library - it has lots of useful methods for working with dates and I believe they also plan to later implement it as a jQuery plugin. Now we'll just sit back and wait to you find a way of implementing this sort of thing: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline *hides*