Re: Krynnspace inconsistency

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Asa Benjamin Winkler" <abwinkler@???????????????.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Krynnspace inconsistency


> On Feb 8, 2007, at 3:11 AM, Paul Westermeyer wrote:
>
>>>> You can find this, with footnotes, in my timeline.
>>>
>>> Thanks Paul. I had forgotten that you had made this (doh!). It is 
>>> really fantastic! I hope that Static includes it in a SJCS PDF at  some 
>>> point in the future. (I can see myself sitting down with a  calculator 
>>> to convert all the dates to DL and FR dates to make it  easier to 
>>> compare this timeline to the DLCS (and FRCS). I'd like  to work out when 
>>> *all* the empires and organisations on Ansalon  (and after that Talidas) 
>>> were at their peek (and therefore more  likely to have some sort of 
>>> presence in the rest of Krynnspace).
>>
>> 5043 OC=581 CY=358 AC=1361 DR=2611 Shou=465 AV=856 TU=9/1299 AC
>>
>> If you have that and know the calender no sweat.  for example, for 
>> Krynnspace, post-cataclysm.  5043-358=4685.  So, to discover the AC 
>> Krynn date of an OC event, just subtract 4685 from the OC event.
>>
>> Example: 5049 OC; 5049-4685= 364, so 5049 OC = 364 AC
>>
>> Just reverse that to get the OC date from an AC date.
>>
>> Example: 383 AC; 383 + 4685= 5068 ie 5068 OC
>
> You know, it might be useful to have a very simple Java calendar 
> converter on Beyond the Moons, so that you could change any one of  those 
> dates and the rest would auto-calculate to conform.  I'd be  willing to 
> take a crack at it (though I'm sure it would be effortless  for at least 
> someone on this list).

A Java converter? But you can do this sort of thing with JavaScript in a 
bookmarklet/favlet. I found a year conversion bookmarklet and quickly 
modified it for Greyhawk to Dragonlance years. All you do to use it is add 
the following HTML to your webpage:

<p>Click the following bookmarklet to convert years from <a 
href="javascript:tMpZ85r=prompt('Greyhawk%20year%20in%20years%20OC..','');if(tMpZ85r){if(isNaN(parseFloat(tMpZ85r))){alert(tMpZ85r+'%20is%20not%20a%20number')}else{void(prompt('Dragonlance%20year%20in%20years%20AC:%20',Math.round((
tMpZ85r-4685))))}}else{void(null)}">Greyhawk
(OC) to Dragonlance (AC)</a>.</p>

As bookmarklets are modified hyperlinks, they are a lot quicker to load that 
a separate Java applet and you don't need your visitors to have Java 
installed. JavaScript is already installed in most browsers and runs when 
you click on the link. (Your visitors may get a security warning if they try 
to run a JavaScript bookmarklet, so you need to tell them it is OK to press 
yes.)

And the other beauty of bookmarklets is that people can save them (to their 
bookmarks) and run them later without going back to your website. (Going to 
your bookmarks/favorites and clicking on a bookmarklet you have saved runs 
the JavaScript.

The only problem with this "Greyhawk to Dragonlance bookmarklet" is that it 
won't display negative dates as PC years. I would have to do a bit of 
research to be able to make a bookmarklet that worked for both positive and 
negative dates, but if I could get it to work for one numbering system I 
could modify the bookmarklet to create one for every different year system. 
(Although with all the different combinations there would be a lot of 
different bookmarkets to put on a page.)

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
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