User talk:Smith609/Timeline

Please use this page for discussion about the Geological Timeline page linked to via Template:Ma – or for a potentially faster response, file a github issue.

Bigger timeline?[edit]

Wow, this thing looks nice :-) Thanks a lot.

However, looking at "2,400 million years ago", it does feel a little cramped. Many labels collapse to one letter. So, what do you think of rotating the whole thing by 90°? A vertical timescale could show much more detail. Like what they have in the box on the right on Neogene.

Think about it, I would be delighted if you could do that. --84.130.75.206 (talk) 13:50, 17 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Error in the 'When' section: "before Earth was formed" is reported even when the timeline is at a few mya. 74.140.212.152 (talk) 22:37, 20 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I'm having a similar problem. The "When" section is malfunctioning. It seems to be set to calculate mya as bya--71.232.117.129 (talk) 19:31, 8 April 2011 (UTC) iwa--31.200.175.207 (talk) 21:48, 21 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Fourth timeline[edit]

Thanks a lot for this tool. I'm linking to it as much as possible using the {{Mya}} template. A proposal: In the context of human evolution, various fossils range from about 2 mya to present. So a fourth timeline for the Pliocene and Pleistocene (or possibly the Neogene) periods would be helpful. --Fama Clamosa (talk) 15:54, 13 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Paleocene–Eocene boundary[edit]

"When" puts 55.9 Ma ({{ma|55.9|Ma}}) in the Paleocene. The latest chart from the ICS sets the boundary at 56.0 Ma however, so 55.9 is Eocene. Perhaps other boundaries are not up to date?

In accordance with the current chart, {{ma|Eocene|Ma}} does yield 56 Ma, so this part works.

This is admittedly a quibble, but it would be nice if things were consistent. Peter Brown (talk) 01:42, 3 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

"Present epoch"[edit]

If you call the tool with http://tools.wmflabs.org/timescale/?Ma=4,400 you get "Hadean eon, present epoch" as the time. It looks like the other scales, like eon, period, subperiod are successfully suppressed; this is just a bug with epoch. Cbogart2 (talk) 22:42, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

The timeline tool is down[edit]

Hi! It seems the tools at https://hemlock.ts.wikimedia.org/~verisimilus/Timeline/Timeline.php and https://tools.wmflabs.org/timescale/ are both down right now. Cheers, AxelBoldt (talk) 20:08, 7 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Ranges and the text "when" output[edit]

I've noticed that when given a range, this template can produce erroneous output in the "When" verbal description. For example, the article Geomagnetic reversal includes the following template reference: {{mya|120|83}}. In expanded form, it looks like this: 120 to 83 million years ago. When you click on that link, the graphical timeline accurately shows this timespan to be entirely within the Cretaceous. However, the verbal description is rendered as "Phanerozoic era, Ectasian period". There is obviously a problem here, as the Ectasian is in the Mesoproterozoic, not the Panerozoic, and nowhere near the Cretaceous. However, giving the template a single value (e.g., 120 million years ago) seems to produce both a correct timeline and correct text (in this case, the text correctly reads "Phanerozoic era, Mesozoic eon, Cretaceous period, Early Cretaceous subperiod, Aptian epoch"). I hope this report can help further improve this quite nice template.GeoGreg (talk) 01:20, 18 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Timeline tool broken?[edit]

Hi, I'm getting "503 Service unavailable" errors for the timeline links, e.g. https://tools.wmflabs.org/timescale/?Ma=252 . Do you know if this is temporary? Thanks, AxelBoldt (talk) 18:23, 17 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]