On Donnerstag, 6. Dezember 2007, Sergey Chernyshev wrote: > It looks like timeline's logic is somehow flawed - my users at > TechPresentations.org age complaining that date ranges (for conferences) > don't show the last day of the range correctly - Timeline assumes 00:00 of > the last day of the range to be the end of timeline item, but it's more > logical to assume 23:59 to be the end of the range. > > For example of the problem see the timeline of conference page: > http://www.techpresentations.org/Conferences
The reason is that values of Type:Date represent a single precise point in
time. If you just enter a date, then the associated time of the day must
be "guessed" and currently we just guess 00:00. We could also guess 9:00 or
16:00, but no choice seems to be really suitable to represent start- and
end-times alike. A simple workaround is to specify more concrete times when
giving start and end of an event. Note that this could also be done in a
template: use two parameters, date and daytime, annotate the date with either
the time added or a default time, and print the extra time only if specified,
e.g.:
[[start date::{{{startdate}}} {{{starttime|09:00}}}|{{{startdate}}}]]
{{{starttime}}}
The time-datatype needs improvements in the future, and maybe we can
incorporate imprecision into it (so instead of creating a default time, one
would really leave the exact time unspecified and timelines could then
default interval endings to 23:59 and starts to 00:00).
Markus
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