Date limit slider displays integers instead of text dates.

[bmschmidt]

E.g.:

There was code to convert, for display, these wonky integer dates into some ISO-standard text display; not sure if it's still in there. It should be restored.

[organisciak]

What's the context for recreating this?

The (pre-merge to master) HT Bookworm at
https://bookworm.htrc.illinois.edu/develop/# seems to run it through
"fixTime()". Do you get any errors? Does setting a breakpoint on fixTime
actually stop the script? What browser?

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E.g.: [image: screen shot 2016-09-01 at 5 57 01 pm]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1110758/18185854/8fadcf5a-706d-11e6-91fe-2ecef3410b38.png

There was code to convert, for display, these wonky integer dates into
some ISO-standard text display; not sure if it's still in there. It should
be restored.

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[bmschmidt]

Sorry, should have linked.

The screenshot of the error I'm encountering is this bookworm somewhere at Yale by @triplingual ; I'm uncertain of the exact commit being used used there

Just tried to reproduce on the default Federalist test set, and things collapsed further--the x axis doesn't reproduce correctly.

The code on fixTime() looks like a custom patch at some point added purely for fields named date_month; but a field needing this particular fix might also be named something like publish_month, publish_day_year, etc. I already wrote some code to address this problem for the D3 bookworm link to code block; maybe I should just port it over and overwrite the fixTime() function here?

But that's a separate issue. The key thing with Yale bookworm, I think, is that the conversion is happening, but only after the text is written to either side of the slider bar. It might be as simple as swapping two lines of code.

[pleonard212]

As a basic fix, this will do it:

t = time_array[0]["dbfield"];

instead of

t = $("#time_measure").val();

on this line:

https://github.com/Bookworm-project/BookwormGUI/blob/master/app/bookworm.gui.js#L352

Caveat: the tooltips are still in integers as you drag the sliders.

Side note: month or even week-level granularity is one of the best features of Bookworm! :)