[Freeciv-Dev] Re: [FreeCiv-Cvs] per: Adding generalised calendar. Calendars can now ... (PR#1964)

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:12:20PM +0100, Ben Webb wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 08:59:29PM +0200, Christian Knoke wrote:
> > It looks silly for me. What about the following calendar instead
> > (not tested):
> > 
> > [calendar_ancient_age]
> > name                   = _("Ancient Age")
> > first_year             = -1000
> > turn_years             = 25
> > req_tech               = "None"
> > early_tech             = "None"
> > ; 1000BC - 1AD = 40 turns, 100 cumulative
> > 
> > [calendar_new_era]
> > name                   = _("Turn of the Era")
> > first_year             = 1
> > turn_years             = 19
> > req_tech               = "None"
> > early_tech             = "None"
> > ; 1AD - 20AD = 1 turn, 101 cumulative
> 
>       Yeah, that should work. You may be able to guess that I was one
> of those people that spent all of the year 2000 yelling at people that
> it wasn't the new millennium yet. ;)
> 
> > > > When I continue an old game, it shows rubbish.
> > > What kind of rubbish?
> > (0 yr/turn)
> 
>       Well, that's a bug, in that case. If you can provide a savegame,
> I'll take a look at it.
> 
> > Also, maybe you can use plural i18n to allow proper localization?
> 
>       That shouldn't be too tricky to do (it'd be a waste of time if
> it's not displayed anywhere, though!)

just by the way, it's highly unlikely that the calendar code is going to
survive in its current form, so I wouldn't worry too much about it.

-mike

PS: ben, could you give us a precise outline of what you need from a
calendaring system for AC? I take it from your implementation that a
required tech and and trigger tech are needed?

PPS: anybody else that needs general calendars: also reply to this thread.
Tolkien?, Ancients?, others?