timeline-vis dates default to 20th century

Thanks for this cool plugin. I’m looking forward to using it extensively!

I created three timeline events ranging from A.D. 46 to A.D. 57 for testing purposes, and they’re displaying perfectly in the standard vertical timeline view. When I try a timeline-vis view, however, it defaults to showing dates in the 1900s (from 1960–1960 instead of 40–60) where there’s no data to display.

Here’s my timeline data:

<span
	class='ob-timelines'
	data-date='46-00-00-00'
	data-title='Pauls first missionary journey'
	data-class='orange'
	data-type='range'
	date-end='48-00-00-00'>
</span>

<span
	class="ob-timelines"
	data-date="49-00-00-00"
	data-title="Paul's second missionary journey"
	data-class="orange"
	data-type="range"
	date-end="52-00-00-00">
</span>

<span
	class="ob-timelines"
	data-date="53-00-00-00"
	data-title="Paul's third missionary journey"
	data-class="orange"
	data-type="range"
	date-end="57-00-00-00">
</span>

And here’s the timeline-vis section. It’s not clear what elements are required, but I haven’t found any combination including minDate and maxDate that makes any difference.

startDate=40
endDate=60

Any suggestions?

[Darakah]

Yes, that can be solved by simply not casting the date to an integer here https://github.com/Darakah/obsidian-timelines/blob/8d4172242a455d079586de664f629d64df21992e/src/utils.ts#L44 As it is removing the leading zeroes and for some reason javascript defaults to the 19s. Will fix it in the next release.

[OogieM]

Maybe related, I’m trying to make a timeline that ignores years. It’s to document when I need to plant seeds in the garden or start seeds and is based on my local area frost date. I’ve tried using a 0000 year and then the month and day but all the items stack up and no span. If I put in a year it all works. But I effectively want this to be aperpetual calendar not tied to a year.

Code in the plant notes.

tags: timeline, test
---

<span 
      class='ob-timelines' 
      data-date='0000-07-02-00' 
      data-title='Plant carrots' 
     data-class='yellow'
      data-type='range' 
      data-end="0000-08-31-00"> 
</span>

tags: timeline, test
---

<span 
      class='ob-timelines' 
      data-date='0000-08-01-00' 
      data-title='Plant lettuce' 
      data-type='range' 
      data-end="0000-08-31-00"> 
</span>

side question, I’m not getting any different colors on the items but that is secondary to getting the data to display properly first.