Support datetime format

[MaxL]

I believe the plugin only supports dates and not datetimes, it would be a nice enhancement.

[Andreas Janz]

Not quite sure how that would look like, Do you have an example timeseries with such datetimes?

[MaxL]

Hi Andreas, thanks for replying so promptly, I wasn’t even sure whether the plugin was still supported

My use case is the following. I have a dataset with satellite images with a date stamp. A few of them share the same date (two passes in a single day at the same location). As I don’t know their datetime exactly and cannot trace it back, I would like to set their time arbitrarily, e.g 2020/10/31 00:00, 2020/10/31 12:00) so that I can display them with your plugin.

I reckon my use case is quite special… However there are certainly loads of datetime image datasets out that would deserve some more love your plugin

[Andreas Janz]

Ah yes, I can reproduce the problem. If you have two observations with the same date, the animation will hang. This is a bug! I will fix this.

As a workaround you can change the stepping unit from indices to days:

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[Andreas Janz]

Relates to #7

[MaxL]

Thanks a lot @Andreas Janz for adding support to duplicate dates (This issue hasn’t been exactly resolved I think, unless you have added support to datetime, but that’s good enough for me )

Cheers!

[Andreas Janz]

This issue hasn’t been exactly resolved I think, unless you have added support to datetime, but that’s good enough for me  

You’re right, it is only kind of solved, because some observations will never show up in case of duplicated dates. But at leased the animation is not hanging anymore.