Arbitrary Years?

GanttProject Desktop Support
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As I browse the forum, I see lots of requests across lots of threads to be able to zoom out much farther than is presently possible. Please do that! Preferably without limit.

But this thread is about the starting point. I also see several uses, including mine, that are not tied to a specific modern year.

Presently, the date parser doesn’t like anything before the year 1000, and the calendar insists on being historically accurate with the days of the week. That can be a problem when diagramming ancient events, or recurring projects that need to stay the same within themselves despite being connected to different dates each time.

For those, an arbitrary year would be awesome! Or at the very least, start with the date 0001/01/01, and an arbitrary day of the week, and go from there.

Thanks!

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GanttProject is a tool for the real world project planning, in a few particular areas where tasks are measured in days/weeks/months. While I understand that some people may want to draw the entire history of the Universe using Gantt charts, I don’t see any significant market opportunity there, sorry.

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At least support recurring projects that use relative dates, not absolute.

4

Relative week numbers are already there.

5

Years, days, and everything else too? Not all projects operate on the scale of weeks.

If so, then this might actually be a problem of documentation, or of new-user discoverability.

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Not yet. But project-relative days clearly make sense.