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[Xwing]

Hi there, happy to see you onboard

I want to ask a common question.. i know there is an aticle somewhere, but couldn't find it

so... how exactly the terran confederation calendar works?

is it like year.day,hour?

what about leap years?

and how the hour of the day is measured?

 

[Death]

(full 4-digit year).(number of days in the year to that point).(hours)minutes)seconds)

Hours are the standard 24 of Terra (though presumably the individual planets have their own local time system; the 24h thing is just for official accounting purposes), and given in the 24h format (1300 instead of 1pm, for example).

Leap years are, by the time of the games, no longer used, though no explanation is given how that quarter-day is being handled in the WC-present, nor (IIRC) is it mentioned when they dropped leap years.

 

[Edfilho]

The leap year thing is needed for earth... An arbitrary universal year-system for all planets could ignore that, considering how it is nowhere close to a solar year in most planets.

 

[ChrisReid]

The leap year thing is needed for earth... An arbitrary universal year-system for all planets could ignore that, considering how it is nowhere close to a solar year in most planets.

Yeah, but dates in Wing Commander are based on Earth years. Leap years simply go to .366 for December 31. I'm amazed how much this comes up. I always thought it was pretty straightforward.

 

[Edfilho]

Well, ok then. I do think it is kinda simple, but it is an option, you know, not bothering with it at all.

 

[Dahan]

I wonder how somebody could not figure out how stardates were created in wing commander

now figuring out the star dates for Star Trek now that is bloody wierd and annoying.
Anyone know how they make up with the numbers

 

[TCSTigersClaw]

Why do you care so much my friend ? .Thats the way they did it,thats all

 

[Xwing]

Tiger's Claw, xairomai pou se vlepw.. I never expected to see a fellow greek here (but then, i am always surprised when i see greeks in forums i decide to write)

as for stardates, have a look here, a very comprehensible article

 

[Bandit LOAF]

We've seen Wing Commander 'stardates' as detailed as Year.Day.Minute.Seconds. So 2654.002.1833.55 would be 4:33 PM and 55 seconds on January 2nd, 2654.

I believe leap years are just ignored -- I'm pretty sure we established that there was a source that included both the 'norma' and the 'star' date for a leap year (2656, probably) that proved that the stardate wasn't taking into account an extra day.