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Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by blowski »

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?

There isn’t a standard. Most individuals don’t have a consistent standard, let alone languages.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by mholt »

koch wrote: post #2

I’ve been working on markwhen as a way to easily create timelines just from text. I’ve used it personally to help plan and coordinate my own wedding ( https://markwhen.com/rob/wedding ) and for keeping track of life events, and I’ve seen it used for event planning, project management, and to visualize historical events or periods of time. I personally like tools that let you immediately start using them, and I set ou…

Very cool. Some great ideas here as I build a visualizer for Timeliner [0] (effectively its successor, Timelinize [1]) in my spare time!

Did you build the timeline UI yourself? Can it be used as a library?

[0]: https://github.com/mholt/timeliner

[1]: https://twitter.com/timelinize

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by yawnxyz »

koch wrote: post #2

I’ve been working on markwhen as a way to easily create timelines just from text. I’ve used it personally to help plan and coordinate my own wedding ( https://markwhen.com/rob/wedding ) and for keeping track of life events, and I’ve seen it used for event planning, project management, and to visualize historical events or periods of time. I personally like tools that let you immediately start using them, and I set ou…

hope your dad recovered from his hospital visit!

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by irrational »

ethbr0 wrote: post #40
irrational wrote: post #28

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These replies are fascinating. When saying a date I always say month day year. I hadn’t considered that this might be cultural.

As an American, same. I was wondering where the weird month-first came from and figured it might have been verbal first, then codified in writing.

At first I wondered if it had something to do with word order in English, but it sounds like other English speaking countries don’t follow this pattern.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by rzwitserloot »

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?

Germanic (Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian) languages just say "10 october", they'd never say "October 10th". Before we get our 'english is so stupid!!!' hat on, in many of these (e.g. Dutch and German), the number '87' is pronounced 'seven-and-eighty' ('zevenentachtig' - 'zeven en tachtig' - seven and eighty), which is stupid. Languages are weird).

Same for the romance ones: It's just "Quatorze juillet" - 14th of July (Bastille day).

English is the weird one, but not that weird, "7th of october" is not much more complicated to say than "October 7th".

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by boomskats »

ytechie wrote: post #44
wortelefant wrote: post #26

This would enable a much appreciated Obsidian plugin, it seems a natural fit

Obsidian supports Mermaid charts. I've used that for this type of chart before, to plan a trip.

While the Gantt in Mermaid is decent, this would be far, far superior as a bidirectional plugin (i.e capable of both visualisation and editing the original markdown).

I'd happily pay for this as an Obsidian plugin.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by DiggyJohnson »

koch wrote: post #49
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

Hey! Thanks for the workaround. Still, I second this feature request, and opened an issue in your repo.

https://github.com/kochrt/markwhen/issues/35

Awesome project. Thanks for sharing.

Re: Show HN: Markwhen: Markdown for Timelines

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Post by codetrotter »

elromulous wrote: post #59
codetrotter wrote: post #24

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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…

Where in Europe? I imagine this might vary by language / region. And could even differ in official use vs vernacular. And ofc, the mixed order is the inferior option.

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