Re: [SMW-devel] Date support in SMW 1.0

[Markus <ma...@ai...>]

On Samstag, 20. Oktober 2007, Dan Thomas wrote:
> Will SMW1.0 support dates prior to 1901?  V0.7 displays similar in fact b=
ox
> for such dates:
>
>
> [Oops! The date "1889/10/6" was not understood. Support for dates is still
> experimental.]

No, not yet. This is planned for the next release after 1.0. The problem is=
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that all our input functions, and all the MediaWiki output functions, are=20
restricted to this range. Also, the database layout we currently use must b=
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modified to store more times. When we do it, however, we plan to do it=20
properly: arbitrary dates within the expected lifetime of the universe,=20
precise to seconds, with internationalised input parsing, and some support=
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for imprecision (i.e. "2007" is not necessarily the same as "Jan 1 2007=20
00:00").=20

Markus

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Markus Kr=F6tzsch
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