[Discuss] Dates

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gagnonm at ijet.com wrote:
> Do we have any kind of dating convention when we reference things in wikis or in RPs?
> Reason I ask is that when I put in an ACTUAL date (like "War was declared on July 11th, 2007" or something like that) it is unbelievably distracting and really gets you out of a serious medieval atmosphere kind of mood... its silly to think of the battlemaster world as having that date - even if we were to suggest its a world in a galaxy far away with a different calander that has the middle ages falling in the 2008 year... just feels weird.
> I've seen some people on wikis just subtract 1000 years... that's interesting as well and certainly helps the mood...
> Is there any kind of unifed convention we're supposed to use when dating things?


Me.. i just stick to real date (on the wiki). +1000 -1000 makes no 
difference and everyone understand it anyway. Otherwise I do not mention 
years at all.

No reason why there needs to be such a thing as unified calender. For 
example, as of this minute, japan still reference their years to when 
the (current) emperor took the throne (or something like that). Doesn't 
mean they don't use the western years.