Re: Krynnspace inconsistency

>>>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.)

Sounds really cool, I'm afraid I don't have any programming skills myself.

If you think negative numbers are difficult, however, try the Astromundi
Chronos calender, or the Kozukuran calender!  The AC is on a 13 year
cycle, and the Kozukuran is on a 60 year cycle!  (I didn't include
Kozakura in my SJ timeline, because they have no SJ connection.  I did
include it in the Kara-tur timeline I constructed, available on most Fr
websites.)

Of course, I highly simplified, not taking into account differing year
lengths nor bothering to synchronize. (the new year of Oerth is unlikely
to match that of Toril!)  It just wasn't worth the trouble.


-- 
"...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!"
"As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear..."
J.R.R. Tolkien, _The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers_

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer@???????.net