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

[Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2002 at 09:49:43PM +0200, Bart Coppens wrote:
> On Friday 23 August 2002 21:35, Mike Kaufman wrote:
> 
> > PPS: anybody else that needs general calendars: also reply to this thread.
> > Tolkien?, Ancients?, others?
> 
> What about calendars using a month each turn? Is that possible? That could be 
> very helpful when writing scenarios that span a small period of time. Think 
> of both World Wars, Tolkien, etc. I know this could be done in Civ2.

yes, this is definitely in the cards. It's actually fairly trivial to add
seconds/turn if you really want it.

What complicates things immensely is when you require a calendar to handle
units of time that are different than mm:dd:yy hh:mm:ss system.

-mike