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Display Interval

The item, Display Interval, allows a user to specify a unit of time with which you can decide how much data are collected and displayed as visualized features one single time. The unit of time should be determined depending on the time range of your data. For example, if the absolute time range on which your data explain events happening just in one day is applied, you can set an hour as the display interval; thus, you can view how these features visualizing your time data changed per hour. But, if the data you applied indicates events that happened on an absolute but longer time range, such as time data of land using, you can set the a decade as the display interval to see how the features changed every decade. Units of time are listed below for your references:

1.Milliseconds

2.Seconds

3.Minutes

4.Hours

5.Days

1.Weeks

2.Months

3.Years

4.Decades

5.Centuries

Self-defined Interval

However, if you applied time data that indicates events taking place in 1990, 1992, 1999 and 2010, that is to say, these events occurred irregularly; it would be inappropriate to use regular interval because there are no time data from 1993 to 1998 that can be visualized and displayed.

You can specify absolute date (whose format, by default, is Year/Month/Day) and time (HH:mm:ss) by entering them, and click + button then OK to finish interval settings customization.

Note: You are supposed to enter at least 3 records of absolute date/time while setting customized interval; otherwise, a reminder message written with “Please insert at least 3 dates/times” will pop up.