Thanks Birthe! This is helpful. I put the following text
in $:/core/ui/ViewTemplate/subtitle:
<$reveal type="nomatch" state=<<folded-state>> text="hide" tag="div"
retain="yes" animate="yes">
<div class="tc-subtitle">
<$link to={{!!modifier}}> <$view field="modifier"/></$link>,
<$view field="created" format="date" template="DD MMM YYYY"/> -
<$view field="modified" format="date" template="DD MMM YYYY"/>
</div>
</$reveal>
This makes the timestamps look better in the subtitles of each tiddler.
But it still doesn't totally solve the problem. For tiddlers with a
"modified" field, the subtitle looks like this:
2017-05-01 - 2017-05-02
While tiddlers without a "modified" field look like this:
2017-05-01 -
Furthermore, tiddlers without a "modified" field don't show up in the
"Recent" tab in the sidebar, which is weird. I still think the best
solution would be for all tabs lacking a "modified" field to have the
"created" field automatically copied into the "modified" field at upgrade
time. This should be a simple enough task for a plugin.
-- Josh
On Wednesday, May 3, 2017 at 12:26:52 AM UTC-7, Josh Burton wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm a long-time user, first-time writer. And I recently upgraded my
> TiddlyWiki from Classic to TW5 by using the online upgrade tool
> <http://tiddlywiki.com/upgrade.html>. Everything looked great - except
> that some of my tiddlers mysteriously stopped displaying their timestamps.
>
> I did some research and I think I've figured out the root of the problem
> (please someone correct me if I'm wrong):
>
> 1) In TW Classic, a tiddler gets its "created" field and timestamp at the
> moment when it is first saved. It does not get a "modified" field and
> timestamp unless you subsequently change its text and save the changes. In
> the river view, a tiddler is displayed with its "modified" timestamp unless
> it lacks a "modified" field, in which case it's displayed with the
> "created" timestamp.
> 2) In TW5, a tiddler is first "created" at the moment when its text box
> first appears. It gets a "modified" field and timestamp when it is first
> saved.
> 3) The online upgrade tool doesn't seem aware of the difference between
> behavior 1) and 2). It keeps track of each tiddler's "created" and
> "modified" fields. But when a tiddler lacks a "modified" field (because it
> was created in Classic and never modified after its initial save), TW5
> displays the tiddler with no timestamp in the normal river view.
>
> There's no real loss of information here, because the tiddlers store the
> same data internally. But the river display is misleading. This doesn't
> seem like intended behavior.
>
> This could be fixed with a tool/plugin that copies the "created" field
> into the "modified" field for all tiddlers that lack a "modified" field. I
> know enough about regular expressions to create a quick hacky version of
> this fix for my own use, but I don't know any JavaScript so I should
> probably not be the one to contribute public code. It would be awesome if
> this fix were part of the automated upgrade process.
>
> Keep up the great work - I do love TiddlyWiki!
>
> -- Josh
>
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