Thought I had changed all files, so tried again, but no change to result.
So, thought maybe it was something I had done that was conflicting, so imported a brand new flexapp, added eTime widget, and have the same issues.
So, thought maybe it was related to using the pre-release 3.
Created a brand new 2.5 viewer project and brought in the eTime widget (even removed the normal Time widget module). Same issue. So, far, the only way I can get it to have the slider value year only is to make the change to the timeSliderSkin.mxml format string.
Wonder if I'm missing something in my config xml or something (still using xml from previous post)??
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