Asulon Dates in the Real Date to IG Year Calendar

[argonian 14254]

Help:Times & Dates - Lord of the Craft

 

Does anyone know why, in the Asulon section, the length of the years various wildly? For half of it, it shows years alternating between 3 and 4 days in length, and then after the 4th of June they switch to being way longer (but also of variable length).

 

Actually I'm seeing a similar thing for late Aegis now that I look at it, with years randomly varying in lengh there too. And that was a whole different calendar plugin.

 

Were there some plugin shenanigans that caused this? Anyone know how these dates were calculated? 

[ScreamingDingo 20568]

3 hours ago, argonian said:

Help:Times & Dates - Lord of the Craft

 

Does anyone know why, in the Asulon section, the length of the years various wildly? For half of it, it shows years alternating between 3 and 4 days in length, and then after the 4th of June they switch to being way longer (but also of variable length).

 

Actually I'm seeing a similar thing for late Aegis now that I look at it, with years randomly varying in lengh there too. And that was a whole different calendar plugin.

 

Were there some plugin shenanigans that caused this? Anyone know how these dates were calculated? 

 

Date calculations changed from 1.0 - 3.0 when we realised the server was going to last longer than expected.

I'll have a look.

EDIT:
It seems like the plugin was broken for a lot of Asulon, so people just manually did it via wiki updates. Telanir is the one who created the plugin that standardised everything
 

 

[argonian 14254]

1 hour ago, ScreamingDingo said:

 

Date calculations changed from 1.0 - 3.0 when we realised the server was going to last longer than expected.

I'll have a look.

EDIT:
It seems like the plugin was broken for a lot of Asulon, so people just manually did it via wiki updates. Telanir is the one who created the plugin that standardised everything
 

 

Yeah I knew the date plugin was gone for a while but that doesn't explain why people would then retroactively apply 3/4-day years to certain periods where the date plugin didn't exist. The straight-forward thing would just be to apply 7-day years to that period. So I'm not sure if these variable-length years are intentional (based on some arcane formula to simulate some quirks of the how the date plugin worked before it went kaputt) or just some weird excel copy-paste error.

 

The year lengths are also weird and variable even in Aegis when we definitely did have a functional 13xx date plugin (albeit with 8 months rather than 7). But again - maybe it had some bugs causing these glitchy dates and some guy came up with a formula to capture that. No idea. If not that, then I wonder how this wiki page gets its dates.

 

@Telanir Help please.