[Qgis-developer] working with temporal data

[Giovanni Manghi]

Hi,

>  Talking about
> temporal data, is there any reason why there is no support for
> datetime attributes in QGIS, only numbers and strings? In our study we
> need to create point features for locations where an animal was
> observed and the filter those features based on date and time.


I believe it does not depend on the program but on the datasource. If
you are using shapefiles you are limited to numer and strings. Take a
far more advanced database like postgis and you'll have plenty of
datatypes, including date/time.


cheers

-- Giovanni --