From an imperial scholar, in the year 1100, there probably is debate about how imperial calendars match up with other ones. I’m ok with there being several “versions” :) Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 22, 2021, at 4:43 PM, Thomas Jones-Low - tjoneslow at gmail.com <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote: > > https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Talk:Date_Conversion > > I will point people interesting in the topic to this page in the Wiki. > > The core point, made by Hans, is > > There are a number of different canonical Imperial dates with their equivalent > > Solomani dates. Unfortunately, they don't match up. There's nothing inherently > > wrong with any of them, except that if some of them are right, others can't be > > and vice versa. > > We picked one specific conversion that seemed to fit best for the Wiki. But there can be debates about which should be a converted date for any given Imperial date. > > https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/-2500 > > The wiki believed the -2500 anniversary of the founding of the Third Imperium was in 2019. > >> On 7/22/2021 5:11 PM, Greg Nokes - greg at nokes.name (via tml list) wrote: >> According to MT’s Imperial Encyclopedia page 10 year 0 on the Imperial calendar is AD 4518 Terran. MT was full of errata, so not sure how cannon that is… but…. There ya go. ;D >>>> On Jul 22, 2021, at 1:04 PM, Ethan McKinney - ethan.mckinney at gmail.com <http://gmail.com> (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Wasn't there a Traveller calendar published that had Imperial dates on it? >>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2021 at 12:45 PM Thomas RUX - tmr0195 at comcast.net <http://comcast.net/> (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote: >>> >>> __ >>> Hello all, >>> Back in 2008 I started a calendar spreadsheet based on the Traveller books >>> I have on hand and Donald McKinney's Traveller Timeline document. The >>> information I have indicates that the 3I started in the Solomani/Terran >>> year of either 4518 or 4521. >>> Tom Rux >>>> On 07/22/2021 11:31 AM Vareck Bostrom - vareck at gmail.com >>>> <http://gmail.com/> <xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> >>>> wrote: >>>> I spent several weeks trying to reconcile the various calendars a couple >>>> of years ago. I ended up with the founding of 21 October 4521. Right now >>>> it would be year -2502, day 35.05. I wish I had kept track of my >>>> methodology a bit better though. I have 5471-March-13 as 9-950 Imperial. >>>> >>>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 5:43 PM Ethan McKinney - ethan.mckinney at >>>> gmail.com <http://gmail.com/> (via tml list) < xxxxxx@simplelists.com >>>> <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Elsewhere, Gabriel Fonseca wrote: >>>> I was doing some date/time tracking for the Traveller campaign I run >>>> and, according to my calculations, the Third Imperium's Negative Two >>>> Thousand Five Hundredth anniversary was a few weeks ago. >>>> >>>> (Based on the following line from Mongoose's Aliens of Charted Space: >>>> Volume 2 and copious usage of Wolfram|Alpha:) >>>> >>>> Empress Margaret responded by revoking the charter and ordering the >>>> dissolution of the Solomani Autonomous Region, along with the >>>> reintegration of Terra into the Imperium. She selected the Terran >>>> date of 13 March, 5471 (292–950 Imperial) for this decree. >>>> >>>> My mathematications seem to imply the Imperium (given it has an >>>> exactly 365 day-long year, no leap years) was founded on Friday, >>>> January 10, 4521. >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> The Traveller Mailing List >>>> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >>>> <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >>>> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >>>> <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >>>> http://archives.simplelists.com <http://archives.simplelists.com/> >>>> >>>> ----- >>>> The Traveller Mailing List >>>> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >>>> <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >>>> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >>>> <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> >>>> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >>>> http://archives.simplelists.com <http://archives.simplelists.com/> >>>> >>> ----- >>> The Traveller Mailing List >>> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml >>> <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >>> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >>> <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> >>> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >>> http://archives.simplelists.com <http://archives.simplelists.com/> >>> >>> ----- >>> The Traveller Mailing List >>> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >>> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com <mailto:xxxxxx@simplelists.com> >>> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >>> http://archives.simplelists.com <http://archives.simplelists.com> >>> >> ----- >> The Traveller Mailing List >> Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml <http://archives.simplelists.com/tml> >> Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com >> To unsubscribe from this list please go to >> http://archives.simplelists.com > > > -- > Thomas Jones-Low > Work: xxxxxx@softstart.com > Home: xxxxxx@gmail.com > ----- > The Traveller Mailing List > Archives at http://archives.simplelists.com/tml > Report problems to xxxxxx@simplelists.com > To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=g8EYmpjfNu22Uwq2slNgbtlSYHMIUXYZ
