Interesting twist to the "span with class datetime not found" error: permissions with custom CCK date fields

Hello,

This isn't exactly a bug report, but more like an unexpected bump into a permissions issue.

BACKGROUND: I've created a view that pulls one of several date CCK fields from a customized event node type. The event happens in phases -- a voting phase, an announcement phase, a showtime phase -- and each phase has a start/end date field. This makes it easy for people who schedule the events to but in all the dates at once instead of having to create lots of separate events for each phase.

ISSUE: As I develop[ed a view to show a countdown for the current phase, I discovered that the countdown worked while I was logged in as admin, but failed with the "span with class datetime not found" error if I was looking at the page anonymously.

I chased down all the solutions I could find online, including removing breaks between elements in the JSTimer markup and turning off all other modules that might use AJAX. No joy.

RESOLUTION: I realized that as admin, I had permissions to view all the CCK fields of an event node, but that anonymous visitors did not. Drupal was stripping the date information out before delivering the page to anonymous viewers.

The error went away when I granted permissions to anonymous to see those fields. TA DA!

I'm providing this info so that other people who use customer CCK date fields with JS Timer will remember to grant permissions to date fields. :) I *love* the way this module works, so I want to help smooth its adoption.

A line might also be added to the error message that visitors must have permissions to see the date of the event.