Dark Lord Galen
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That's the hope.. that the underlying data would stay the same. As I detailed above, If you wanted to see where that data relates to different cultures or different locales (ie planets even) without changing any of the underlying overall storyline.Wouldn't the underlying data stay the same whatever the calendar?
I think we are saying the same thing more or less... the confusion is your use of Gregorian as the base.Thinking about it a bit more, what I'm really grasping at is the ability to change which calendar is displayed for the data in the snippet. If I were doing it, I would have the data stored like in spreadsheets. (As integers for dates and decimals for time.) Have the base calendar set as Gregorian, which hopefully allows for the date to be shown as dd/mm/yyyy and mm/dd/yyyy, then if the calendar is set to Golarian, RW will show the Golarian date.
For example:
Excel stores dates as sequential serial numbers so that they can be used in calculations. By default, January 1, 1900, is serial number 1, and January 1, 2008, is serial number 39448 because it is 39,448 days after January 1, 1900.
Excel is based on Gregorian as noted above. Creating a serial string to convert into a format d/mm/yy, dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yy, mm/dd/yyyy, etc
By starting with 1900 exel becomes cumbersome with any date before 1Jan1900.
In contrast in a database environment similar to RW they count seconds.
not to derail this into a discussion on software coding, I would speculate that LWD would approach it in similar fashion, counting seconds... it is just a determinate of where does the count begin in relation to everything "default".Microsoft website said:According to MSDN, in all versions of Microsoft C/C++ except Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0, and in all versions of Microsoft Visual C++, the time function returns the current time as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on January 1, 1970 (i.e. epoch). In Microsoft C/C++ version 7.0, time returned the current time as the number of seconds elapsed since midnight on December 31, 1899.
I agree, though the underlying "default" will actually be some sort of serial string (most likely) and the end user will select what DISPLAY default they wish.So what I'm really saying is that I hope there is, 1) a way to bulk change the displayed date to the calendar you want, 2) set snippets to display the calendar you want in the category stucture, so they can be entered as Gregorian if you want, and 3) pasting of date data, which would have to be in Gregorian format, but then the calendar displayed would be the one you want.