While trying to understand why dates are handled as they are in TIddyWiki, I found out it is not TiddlyWiki but Javascript that is the problem.
View this thread <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7556591/is-the-javascript-date-object-always-one-day-off> for some craziness (https://stackoverflow.com/a/31732581) On Saturday, September 12, 2020 at 11:18:20 PM UTC-4 TW Tones wrote: > Re parsing an input; > > There is a facility in the current pre release keyboard-driven-input Macro > <https://tiddlywiki.com/prerelease/#keyboard-driven-input%20Macro> > > This allows actions to be executed from an input field, say with enter. > This may provide the opportunity to do post entry processing. Effectively > allowing you to make more sophisticated parsing take place on a per input > basis. > > Thus you could pass the value to other functions, if available for the > result. > > Regards > Tony > > > > On Sunday, 13 September 2020 01:45:25 UTC+10, amreus wrote: >> >> >> Ruby has this great library called Chronic that parses strings into Ruby >> Date objects. It handles date strings that are human friendly as well as in >> rigid formats. >> >> You can see some usage examples here: https://github.com/mojombo/chronic >> >> Has anyone already made such a parser for TiddyWiki5? Does anyone know if >> a similar library exists for Javascript which could be used? >> >> Why? I have a textbox for rapid list item entry. Instead of picking a >> due-date for example, I just want to include the due-date as part of the >> text and have a macro parse it out from the title and add it as a date >> field. An example entry in my textbox might look like this: >> >> Schedule a fire system test due:"oct 1 8am" >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/51007ad5-b70c-44fc-80bf-35df960aacabn%40googlegroups.com.
