Timeline Data
A timeline can be created from a single column containing temporal data in supported formats (e.g. yyyy-MM-dd) or from multiple columns specifying the time parts (i.e. year column, month column, day column).
Microreact can interpret several date formats correctly, based on Unicode Technical Standard #35. These formats include the following. Note that capital Y and capital D are also acceptable and are automatically converted to lowercase and treated as lowercase; this adaptation was included to allow backwards-compatibility with Moment.js formats.
- yyyy-MM-dd (e.g. 2022-01-20) THIS IS THE PREFERRED FORMAT (ISO 8601)
- yyyy-M-d (e.g. 2022-1-5)
- dd/MM/yyyy (e.g. 20/01/2022)
- yyyy/M/d (e.g. 2022/1/20)
- M/d/yyyy (e.g. 1/20/2022)
- MMMM dd, yyyy (e.g. January 20, 2022)
- MMM dd, yyyy (e.g. Jan 20, 2022)
- MMMM ddo, yyyy (e.g. January 20th, 2022)
- MMM ddo, yyyy (e.g. Jan 20th, 2022)
Note some that data coming from other programs may be encoded in a way that is inaccessible to Microreact. For example, a custom datetime format in Excel may display within Excel as "2022-08-16 15:30" but may display in Microreact as "44789.64632".
Possible ways to fix misinterpreted dates:
- In external program, save file as CSV, then open in a text editor to verify proper formatting
- In external program, set the column format as text instead of date
- In external program, use ISO 8601 dates (yyyy-MM-dd) and set column date format accordingly
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