[Geoserver-devel] WMS request and Time support

Hi,

I'm developping a web site using Openlayer and Geoserver/PostGIS. But i have a problem when using wms and time on OpenLayer/Geoserver/PostGIS.

* I setup a Datastore for the PostGIS database and add it a feature containing my observations with the following attributes : oid, id, name, geom, date.
* I setup a time template (time.ftl) for my feature.
* I generated a KML file, open it up in GoogleEarth and explored my observations using the time bar controller.
* I tried to visualize my observations using OpenLayer but when changing the time parameter of my WMS request, the observation is refresh, but it is always the same image/observation ... the WMS time parameter seems not to be used by Geoserver/PostGIS.

So my questions are :
    * why is it possible to visualize my observations using googleearth and not using openlayer ?
    * is googleearth using WMS and time parameter or another way for accessing my observations ?
    * is Geoserver supporting time parameter on WMS request ? If yes, what is the problem ?

Regards,
Remi