Re: [TML] Solomani-Imperial Timeline Year Conversion
Jeff Zeitlin 27 Feb 2018 00:55 UTC
On Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:30:21 -0800, Jim Vassilakos
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>Sorry if this has already been addressed, but
>http://www.travellerrpg.com/CotI/Discuss/showthread.php?t=986 says that
>Solomani Year = Imperial Year + 4518, whereas
>http://wiki.travellerrpg.com/-2400 indicates that Solomani Year = Imperial
>Year + 4522. Right now I'm guessing that the former, not the latter, is
>correct, but can anyone confirm this one way or the other?
Actually, I think the difference was 4521 in Imperial Year 0, but note that
since the Imperial calendar doesn't intercalate, and the Solomani calendar
does (it's the Gregorian calendar), they get a little farther out of sync
every four years - or, more accurately, 97 days every 400 years. So, NE1
(Third Imperium Year 1200) would have a difference of 4521 years and just
short of 10 months - so calling it 4522 wouldn't be too intolerably
inaccurate.
(That's the numbers I used, at any rate, when I wrote
http://www.freelancetraveller.com/features/culture/reference/calend.html -
where I got that correspondence, I don't actually recall, and didn't
include in the article).
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