HOW TO
To create a time animation, Date/Time data is required. The Date type fields in a shapefile support either the date or the time, but not both in the same field.
Sometimes, a problem arises when exporting a geodatabase feature class containing a Date/Time field to a shapefile. After exporting, the time value in the shapefile is truncated. Only the date value is maintained.
Shapefiles containing date and time data in a String type field can still be used to create a time animation to visualize temporal data over time.
This article describes how to create a time animation using a shapefile.
Note: The Field Calculator can be used to remove unnecessary text in the field attributes. For more information, refer to the following ArcGIS Web Help topic, Making simple field calculations. Additionally, the time values must be in a supported format. Refer to the following ArcGIS Web Help topic: Supported field formats. For more information on formatting date fields, refer to the following ArcGIS Web Help topic, Fundamentals of date fields.
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