Currently the Horizontal-Timeline 2.0 javascript module allows events to be added based upon Date or DateTime. However, these format are quite local depending. Not every country is utilizing a dd/mm/yyyy format. Some prefer dashes instead of slashes, others like to change the position of day and month numbers.
The ISO8601 Date and Time-format is documented with the Internation Standards Organisation (ISO) under number 8601 and was first published back in 1988.
This standard would allow us to write a Date and Time as yyyymmddTHHMMSS. And ofcourse several others as mentioned in the standard, please read on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.
This Date and Time format would allow us to more easily sort events based on time. as we can sort numerically instead of based on date/time property.
Also the use of ISO8601 would allow us to add events on the timeline without a before or after position value set, as the full event time clearly indicates where it should be placed. Only in the case of identical date and time this property would be useful.
I will add some suggestions on the implementation in the response below, to keep the feature request separated from the implementation discussion.
Currently the Horizontal-Timeline 2.0 javascript module allows events to be added based upon Date or DateTime. However, these format are quite local depending. Not every country is utilizing a dd/mm/yyyy format. Some prefer dashes instead of slashes, others like to change the position of day and month numbers.
The ISO8601 Date and Time-format is documented with the Internation Standards Organisation (ISO) under number 8601 and was first published back in 1988.
This standard would allow us to write a Date and Time as yyyymmddTHHMMSS. And ofcourse several others as mentioned in the standard, please read on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601.
This Date and Time format would allow us to more easily sort events based on time. as we can sort numerically instead of based on date/time property.
Also the use of ISO8601 would allow us to add events on the timeline without a before or after position value set, as the full event time clearly indicates where it should be placed. Only in the case of identical date and time this property would be useful.
I will add some suggestions on the implementation in the response below, to keep the feature request separated from the implementation discussion.