Year placement is wrong

[stevesuo]

When I sort Oldest First in this example, an entry for January 1, 1985 ends up being placed after the year heading for 1979 and before the year heading for 1985. I don't think this is the expected behavior. Here is the spreadsheet I am using:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AqSrygWv7Qj3dDVDZHBqVTdFNFBOSU5NSmtrOEZHLUE&output=html

[zzolo]

Hey Steve. As the README says, the data field is very particular; try updating this. https://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline#data

[stevesuo]

Way cool that you responded so fast and way cool project. I will try the fix tomorrow.

Sent from my iPhone

On May 9, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Alan Palazzolo notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey Steve. As the README says, the data field is very particular; try updating this. https://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline#data

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[stevesuo]

I followed the instructions in README, made the dates January 1, 1985 etc. and all columns are plain text. The issue persists when sorted oldest to newest.

[stevesuo]

Please try the example sheet that I referenced earlier. It contains to reformatted dates.

[zzolo]

Hey Steve. Do you have your code anywhere I can look at it?

[stevesuo]

Heya. I simply cloned the repo to my test site, frogmine.com. The blog entry that points to the javascripts is as follows (copied directly from the example shown on GitHub):

Vertical Timeline

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:35 PM, Alan Palazzolo notifications@github.comwrote:

Hey Steve. Do you have your code anywhere I can look at it?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline/issues/2#issuecomment-17740180 .

-- Steve

[zzolo]

The code you pasted seems to work fine, though the spreadsheet is different.

If I try with your original spreadsheet above, it does behave oddly. I am not sure what the issue, but would need to spend more time with a spreadsheet I can edit before I can figure it out.

[stevesuo]

Alan,

Thank you so much for taking all the time to help. I just put the example pointing to the correct spreadsheet here:

http://frogmine.com/jquery-vertical-timeline/example.html

I confirmed from this that there's nothing on the oregonlive.com site that is causing the problem -- I still get odd behavior on frogmine.com.

If you give me an email address, I can give you edit access to the Google document. I will make a backup. You seem like a trustworthy type, though. :)

Steve

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Alan Palazzolo notifications@github.comwrote:

The code you pasted seems to work fine, though the spreadsheet is different.

If I try with your original spreadsheet above, it does behave oddly. I am not sure what the issue, but would need to spend more time with a spreadsheet I can edit before I can figure it out.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline/issues/2#issuecomment-17741550 .

-- Steve

[zzolo]

Hey Steve. Finally got around to looking at this. There is definitely a bug, but I have not identified the actual issue. It may be a matter of timezone offsets.

You can get around it by using something like "January 02, 1994" instead of Jan 1 and it should sort the way you want it to. I'll keep looking to find what the actual bug is.

[stevesuo]

Thanks so much! My Plan B was to try display:none on the sort buttons -- because the sort worked fine descending but not ascending -- but that kind of eliminates a core piece of the functionality you created.

I'll try the workaround.

Steve

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Alan Palazzolo notifications@github.comwrote:

Hey Steve. Finally got around to looking at this. There is definitely a bug, but I have not identified the actual issue. It may be a matter of timezone offsets.

You can get around it by using something like "January 02, 1994" instead of Jan 1 and it should sort the way you want it to. I'll keep looking to find what the actual bug is.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline/issues/2#issuecomment-18367794 .

-- Steve