Revert using field names to determine whether a value is a timestamp (see #847, #856)

HISTORY.md

@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor
 
 - Implemented option `timestampFormat` which allows customizing the formatting
   of timestamp tags. See also option `timestampTag`. Thanks @smallp.
+- Reverted the heuristics introduced in `v7.3.0` to check whether some field
+  contains a timestamp based on the field name, because they can give wrong 
+  timestamps in case of values in seconds instead of the assumed milliseconds 
+  (see #847, #856). 
 
 
 ## 2019-12-08, version 7.5.0

docs/api.md

@@ -472,10 +472,8 @@ Constructs a new JSONEditor.
 
   If `true` (default), a tag with the date/time of a timestamp is displayed
   right from values containing a timestamp. By default, a value is 
-  considered a timestamp when it is (a) an integer number with a value larger 
-  than Jan 1th 2000, `946684800000`, or (b) it's field name contains any of the
-  following strings (case insensitive): `'date'`, `'time'`, `'created'`,
-  `'updated'`, `'deleted'`.
+  considered a timestamp when it is an integer number with a value larger 
+  than Jan 1th 2000, `946684800000`.
   
   When `timestampTag` a is a function, a timestamp tag will be displayed when 
   this function returns `true`. The function is invoked with an object as first 
@@ -490,7 +488,8 @@ Constructs a new JSONEditor.
   ```
 
   Whether a value is a timestamp can be determined implicitly based on 
-  the `value`, or explicitly based on `field` or `path`.
+  the `value`, or explicitly based on `field` or `path`. You can for example
+  test whether a field name contains a string like: `'date'` or `'time'`.
 
   Example:
   

src/js/util.js

@@ -1355,38 +1355,18 @@ export function parseString (str) {
   return str
 }
 
-const TIMESTAMP_FIELDS = [
-  'DATE',
-  'TIME',
-  'CREATED',
-  'UPDATED',
-  'DELETED'
-]
-
 /**
- * Test whether some field contains a timestamp. This is based
- * on the number being large has a naming like "date" or "time"
+ * Test whether some field contains a timestamp in milliseconds after the year 2000.
  * @param {string} field
  * @param {number} value
  * @return {boolean}
  */
 export function isTimestamp (field, value) {
-  if (typeof value === 'number' &&
+  return typeof value === 'number' &&
     value > YEAR_2000 &&
     isFinite(value) &&
     Math.floor(value) === value &&
-    !isNaN(new Date(value).valueOf())
-  ) {
-    return true
-  }
-
-  if (typeof field === 'string') {
-    const fieldUpper = field.toUpperCase()
-
-    return TIMESTAMP_FIELDS.some(search => fieldUpper.indexOf(search) !== -1)
-  }
-
-  return false
+    !isNaN(new Date(value).valueOf());
 }
 
 /**

test/util.test.js

@@ -509,14 +509,6 @@ describe('util', () => {
   it('should test whether a field is a timestamp', () => {
     assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('foo', 1574809200000), true)
     assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('foo', 1574809200000.2), false)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('dateCreated', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('updatedAt', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('deletedAt', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('DATE', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('TIMESTAMP', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('timestamp', 0), true)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('hello', 0), false)
-    assert.strictEqual(isTimestamp('TIM', 0), false)
   })
 
   // TODO: thoroughly test all util methods