My Historical Date format uses a double-precision float. The mantissa of
that float should be adaptable to store a time, and will easily be as
precise as you need to be to store a time, precise to one second, with a
date. Specifically, it's a Julian date that goes from noon to noon
UTC--so somehow I need to figure out how to parse a time zone.
Right now my file is so big that I can't send it in e-mail anymore--not
without compressing it first. It also needs a great deal of work in its
regular expressions, so that it can properly parse a time.
Temlakos
CNIT wrote:
>> Output is already localised anyway, using the wiki language in the Factbox
>> and
>> the user language in Special:Browse etc. It is technically not possible
>> (without much added processing effort) to localise page contents to user
>> settings, since the wiki page is cached for all users.
>>
>>
>>
>>> but also
>>> it would be nice to have
>>> compatibility with current {{#time}} calculations, which allows nice
>>> things, like "show me
>>> the articles from that category and limit to current week/month":
>>> http://sandbox.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Test_query#Date_filtering
>>>
>>>
>> Do you mean we should support input of the form "2008-W41"?
>>
>>
>>
>
> There should be way to perform time calculations. Maybe a input of date
> in seconds
> stored in 64bit number, so it can store dates from Noah to 2100 century.
> Then, the time calculations can be performed in templates.
>
> It would be a good idea to have "cross-wiki" international format
> such as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO8601 in addition to localized
> formats,
> so the dates can be imported easily from another language wikies.
>
> Also, localized formats aren't fixed, here in Russia the same date can be
> displayed either as
> 13 Oktyabrya 2008
> or
> 13.10.2008
> so, it would be nice to be able to specify formatting in printouts,
> something like
> {{#ask:...|?Date{d.M.y}|...}}
>
>
> Dates are horrible thing - they use complex numerical base. I've had a
> pain of building
> a query which should return pages of memorable dates from past
> centuries, where only
> day and month should match with current one.
>
> These templates helped me a lot:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Date_computing_template
> many thanks to hard work of the people who had implemented these.
>
> By the way, these templates already ISO8601 compliant:
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Template:YMD2MJD
> Maybe it would be nice to have compatibility with such templates.
>
> Dmitriy
>
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