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Inside the text of the comment you can use all the wikitext tricks described earlier for the ''Visible text'' field. | Inside the text of the comment you can use all the wikitext tricks described earlier for the ''Visible text'' field. | ||
''Start date'' and ''End date'' - Instantaneous events have only start date, while time intervals have both start and end dates. The date format is this: MM.DD.YYYY. This is an example of an event with a full date <code>some event with a full date;;;;05.25. | ''Start date'' and ''End date'' - Instantaneous events have only start date, while time intervals have both start and end dates. The date format is this: MM.DD.YYYY. This is an example of an event with a full date: | ||
<code>some event with a full date;;;;05.25.2001;;</code> | |||
Also, you can specify only month, without a date: <code>05.2001</code>. Or you can specify only year: <code>2001</code>. When you specify only year, the event will point to a moment between June and July of that year: | |||
[[File:OnlyYearEvent.png]] | |||
If you specify month without a date, the event will point roughly to the middle of that month, a moment between 15th and 16th day of that month (see the picture below). In general, when event is pointing to a moment between days, that shows that we don't know the date precisely, and the positions of events on the timeline should not be taken literally in such cases. | |||
To specify that a year is BC/BCE use the minus sign. Note, that the minus should go before the year, not entire date. For example: <code>03.15.-44</code> is correct, and <code>-03.15.44</code> is not. Also note that even though we use the minus sign, we don’t use the astronomical year numbering system where year Zero corresponds to 1 BC, year -1 to year 2 BC and so on. There is no year Zero on the Timeline, and minus simply means BC. For example, year -44 is year 44 BC. | To specify that a year is BC/BCE use the minus sign. Note, that the minus should go before the year, not entire date. For example: <code>03.15.-44</code> is correct, and <code>-03.15.44</code> is not. Also note that even though we use the minus sign, we don’t use the astronomical year numbering system where year Zero corresponds to 1 BC, year -1 to year 2 BC and so on. There is no year Zero on the Timeline, and minus simply means BC. For example, year -44 is year 44 BC. | ||