Yep, I thought about adding time within template - the problem with it is
that it gets displayed as full date/time which is not really my intention.
Sergey
On Dec 10, 2007 3:02 AM, Markus Krötzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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