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Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by codetrotter »

mtoddsmith wrote: post #30
codetrotter wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

European here. When I state my date of birth I state it as “7th of October 1990”. When a date is within the current year I state it as for example “27th of June”. If weekday matters, and specific date is still relevant I’ll say for example “Monday 27th of June”. I might also simply say “Sunday last week”, “Monday next week”, “Monday at the end of next month”, etc. Likewise I might say “a couple of weeks ago”, “last w…

YYYY-DD-MM as a folder / filename does not sort correctly. Not a fan. I much prefer YYYY-MM-DD for its sorting behavior.

Sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say YYYY-MM-DD. Edited now.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

ethbr0 wrote: post #16
chriswarbo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> It’s pretty convenient as the time periods uses the format YYYY-MM-DD/YYYY-MM-DD and I think is easier to mentally parse than MM/DD/YYYY-MM/DD/YYYY Especially for those outside the USA!

As someone who grew up in the US, it's still bizarre as a programmer to have a mixed-significance ordering (MM-DD-YYYY) instead of any consistently-endian ordering (DD-MM-YYYY or YYYY-MM-DD). Out of curiosity, in what order do Europeans verbally say full dates with month names? Or does it vary by language?

It varies by context: sometimes I'll say "20th June", sometimes "June 20th". There's no rhyme or reason.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by zaep »

I'm working on an MIT-licensed time-tracking tool in my spare time and I'm hoping somebody (in a "this is not legal advice"-capacity at least) can enlighten me on licensing here:

If I am understanding the AGPL-3.0 correctly (and assuming that the format is also under the license), I could NOT add an "export to Markwhen" feature to my project without then being forced to convert it to AGPL-3.0. Is this correct?

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by ChadNauseam »

zaep wrote: post #43

I'm working on an MIT-licensed time-tracking tool in my spare time and I'm hoping somebody (in a "this is not legal advice"-capacity at least) can enlighten me on licensing here: If I am understanding the AGPL-3.0 correctly (and assuming that the format is also under the license), I could NOT add an "export to Markwhen" feature to my project without then being forced to convert it to AGPL-3.0. Is this correct?

No, nobody can copyright a file format

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by ethanwillis »

ChadNauseam wrote: post #45
zaep wrote: post #43

I'm working on an MIT-licensed time-tracking tool in my spare time and I'm hoping somebody (in a "this is not legal advice"-capacity at least) can enlighten me on licensing here: If I am understanding the AGPL-3.0 correctly (and assuming that the format is also under the license), I could NOT add an "export to Markwhen" feature to my project without then being forced to convert it to AGPL-3.0. Is this correct?

No, nobody can copyright a file format

This, similarly you could copy(reimplement) the entire API for this software if you wish with some caveats.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by koch »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #46

If only this were a vertical timeline with a print-friendly format. Its great, but a guy can dream....

Exporting to pdf/png does a good job of getting everything into view. Otherwise the 'doc' view (the third view option button in the bottom left corner) might be your best bet, it just displays a list
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