Just looking at the view widget code. There's a loophole that will allow you to display a utc date:
<$list filter="20190101000000000" > <$view field="title" format="date"/> </$list> This works as long as there is no actual tiddler "20190101000000000" . Actually, maybe it works even if there is, but I didn't test that. You could work this into a macro where the UTC date gets passed to the filter. Keep in mind, that your padding approach will give an incorrect output if you live west of GMT. --Mark On Sunday, March 17, 2019 at 6:33:41 AM UTC-7, S. S. wrote: > > > People like to keep dates in fields in different ways. > > Normal people use *17-03-2019* or *17/03/2019* > Others use *03-17-2019* or *03/17/2019* > Smart ones use *2019-03-17* or *2019/03/17* > The smartest use *20190317* but it not natural to type in a date this > way, and it is very difficult for *the mind* to "*parse*" & "*render*" > > To refer to just a year, or a month of the year, or a specific day, all my > dates are in 3 formats: > Today: 2019-03-17 > This month: 2019-03 > This year: 2019 > > To convert my dates auto to the default 17 character TiddlyWiki format: > YYYYMMDDHHMMSSXXX > was a real pain for me. I managed to do it with a (very painful for me to > have made) *<<date {{!!date-field}}>>* macro. > > The macro takes any of the above 3 formats and AUTO converts: > > 2019 to 20190101000000000 > 2019-03 to 20190301000000000 > 2019-03-17 to 20190317000000000 > > Then comes the next problem. How do I display this? > I can't use the <$view> widget, because that can only take input from a > *Field*, and my {{!!date-field}} is not in the right format. Only my > variable holds the acceptable format. > > So what's a good way to display a variable holding 20190317000000000 as: > *Sunday > 17th March 2019* > > Something like: > > *<$text text=<<date {{!!date-field}}>> format="date" template="[UTC] DDD > DDth MMM YYYY"/>*Thanks > *.* > -- 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 post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/4020f71f-856c-4e75-8b75-bd5731d9640c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.