BCE Dates in vis.js Timeline Plugin

[Nicholas Lacasse]

I am trying to use this plugin for TW that adds the vis.js timeline feature. However, the dates I want to put on my timeline start around 1600 BCE. I can't seem to get it to accept any format for this and have had no luck finding documentation that solves my problem. This is the developer's github but I don't have much experience with github – is there a way to contact people directly (is that even socially acceptable)? It seems that plugin is using the moment.js libraries to parse the dates. The plugin seems to allow us to easily change the format the library is parsing but I can't seem to find a conclusive answer to if there is a way for this library to handle BCE dates.

Any ideas?

[Tobias Beer]

Hi Nicholas,

 

I don't have much experience with github

While that may sound deverloperish, it is actually quite simple to create a GitHub account only to then open an issue at that repository... which woud notify the dev directly, assuming he is watching is repositories.

I have never tried to work with it, but this appears to be an issue of the visjs timeline module itself. This issue at the project's repo might give you a clue as to how to get to the proper dates for anything BCE, potentially:

https://github.com/almende/vis/issues/307

Best wishes,

— tb