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Malen Nenokal
Eden Federal Recon
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Posted - 2009.01.07 14:05:00 -
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I'm sure this has been asked many times before, but from what I've heard it's Y110 now that the new year has passed.
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Akikio Lankinen
Mirkur Draug'Tyr Ushra'Khan
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Posted - 2009.01.07 14:44:00 -
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111 is the current year |
Gieron
Middleton and Mercer LLP Sylph Alliance
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Posted - 2009.01.07 15:10:00 -
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Or 23347 AD in our way of counting. Although I've never quite understood if the people of EVE are aware of this or not.
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Rodj Blake
Amarr PIE Inc.
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Posted - 2009.01.07 16:16:00 -
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111.
Dulce et decorum est pro imperium mori.
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Mithfindel
Gallente Zenko Group
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Posted - 2009.01.07 17:07:00 -
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Edited by: Mithfindel on 07/01/2009 17:08:13 I'd be pretty positive that people don't know what year it is in AD. At least during the Dark Ages it would have been likely very difficult (though not necessarily impossible) to keep up with a calendar when the planet you're in likely has a different length of a day and a different length of a year. Some systems might have preserved the information (intact and operable warpgates the Minmatar found, Caldari terraforming equipment) though it might be unsure if anyone could use those computer systems or read the ancient languages.
Jove might know, though, considering that their dark age was relatively short. Assuming that Amarr sync'd their calendar with an Earth calendar before the fall (for example for religious holidays) it might be possible that some student of truly ancient Scripture might be able to calculate the year, but the general public might think about them the same way we think about people who calculate the exact date and time of the creation of the universe based on the Bible. |
Dryson Bennington
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Posted - 2009.01.09 01:20:00 -
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Quote: Edited by: Mithfindel on 07/01/2009 17:08:13 I'd be pretty positive that people don't know what year it is in AD. At least during the Dark Ages it would have been likely very difficult (though not necessarily impossible) to keep up with a calendar when the planet you're in likely has a different length of a day and a different length of a year. Some systems might have preserved the information (intact and operable warpgates the Minmatar found, Caldari terraforming equipment) though it might be unsure if anyone could use those computer systems or read the ancient languages.
Jove might know, though, considering that their dark age was relatively short. Assuming that Amarr sync'd their calendar with an Earth calendar before the fall (for example for religious holidays) it might be possible that some student of truly ancient Scripture might be able to calculate the year, but the general public might think about them the same way we think about people who calculate the exact date and time of the creation of the universe based on the Bible.
I would have to say that the first date of recorded time should be whenever humanity first grasped the concept of writing her/his thoughts down to form a traceable pattern of expressionable emotions or... history. The very first forms of a calendar would be traced to paintings on a cave wall to convey that during a certain time of the year animals gathered in this area and were hunted by tribesmen for food. The language used would have been of great importance in keeping the tribe alive along with other sub-factors involved, ego, vanity ect at being able to express oneself in such a manner. |
Mithfindel
Gallente Zenko Group
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Posted - 2009.01.09 07:49:00 -
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Edited by: Mithfindel on 09/01/2009 07:49:15
Originally by: Dryson Bennington I would have to say that the first date of recorded time should be whenever humanity first grasped the concept of writing her/his thoughts down to form a traceable pattern of expressionable emotions or... history. The very first forms of a calendar would be traced to paintings on a cave wall to convey that during a certain time of the year animals gathered in this area and were hunted by tribesmen for food. The language used would have been of great importance in keeping the tribe alive along with other sub-factors involved, ego, vanity ect at being able to express oneself in such a manner.
Not quite on the topic, since in the context of EVE there has been a prior "golden age" (Terran civilization) followed by a "dark age" (when civilization collapsed in the colonies due to separation from the Milky Way galaxy). As such, in EVE the Dark Age refers specifically to this fall, and the "old way" of counting years in Anno Domini (or as it's nowadays more fashionable and politically correct to say, CE for "Common Era" which is the same but without the reference to Christ).
As such, if the first traces of civilization used some calendar it does not signify that they had traces of the old Earth calendar. Specifically if the calendar used was connected to the possible seasons of the exoplanet they inhabited, you could be almost certain that it had nothing to do with the old Earth calendar, the preservation (or the possibility of preservation) of which was the point of my post.
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BrysonBennington
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Posted - 2009.01.15 16:09:00 -
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Quote: Not quite on the topic, since in the context of EVE there has been a prior "golden age" (Terran civilization) followed by a "dark age" (when civilization collapsed in the colonies due to separation from the Milky Way galaxy). As such, in EVE the Dark Age refers specifically to this fall, and the "old way" of counting years in Anno Domini (or as it's nowadays more fashionable and politically correct to say, CE for "Common Era" which is the same but without the reference to Christ).
As such, if the first traces of civilization used some calendar it does not signify that they had traces of the old Earth calendar. Specifically if the calendar used was connected to the possible seasons of the exoplanet they inhabited, you could be almost certain that it had nothing to do with the old Earth calendar, the preservation (or the possibility of preservation) of which was the point of my post.
Very True, each calendar would not be specific to any one system being the center, but instead relates to how long each planet in each solar system makes a revolution around the system's gravity providing location, or the sun. Each system therefore would have it's own calendar based on numerous properties. 5000 different calendar's in EvE. Now that's a daunting task to figure out.
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William Ytiri
YTiRi Retail
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Posted - 2009.01.15 18:58:00 -
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I've asked this a few weeks ago and got some very helpful answers. Check this thread also: http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=959966 |
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