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- From: jim@rand.org (Jim Gillogly)
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- Subject: Re: Middle-Earth related software ?
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- Date: 3 Jan 93 20:11:51 GMT
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- In article <C0ALCy.5x6@ra.nrl.navy.mil> atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson) writes:
- > I'd be interested in a software program that displayed the Shire
- >Reckoning calendar and kept track of which day is "today" as the year
- >passed, possibly annotated with key 3rd Age historical events.
-
- Actually, I did the S.R. conversion part yesterday, though not the 3rd age
- historical bits... synchronicity at work. The primary goal was to get it
- working in an elaborately-carved calendar clock for the famous Maze of Art
- in the Ways of Sawall, AmberMUSH, where you can see it on display in the
- entryway. It's in MUSH code, though, which might not be too enlightening
- for you, depending on your background. AmberMUSH is accessible with
- telnet or better at lodestar.gb.nrao.edu, port 9999.
-
- I modified JRRT's description of it slightly, though. He indicates that
- our New Year's Day corresponds more or less to the Shire's 8 Jan (meaning
- 8 Afteryule, of course), but he also says that Yule and Midyear's Day
- should correspond to the solstices; at 8 Afteryule, Midyear's Day ends up
- on our 24 Jun, which is annoyingly distant from the solstice. I decided
- unilaterally that some latterday hobbit reformer will have put it back in
- order by now by adding in almost a year of Lithe and Yule days over a
- decade or so (or leaving out two Overlithes over eight years, which seems
- less likely, knowing hobbits), and moved our New Year's Day to 10 Afteryule.
- This isn't totally unjustified, since JRRT says he's unskilled in these
- matters and may well have made some conversion errors. This does reasonable
- things to the Lithe and Yule solstices both in leap and normal years.
-
- I wrote a perl program that does it also... and produces my .signature
- through a named pipe. Guess I had too much time on my hands this Yule.
-
- --
- Jim Gillogly
- Mersday, 12 Afteryule S.R. 1993, 20:11
-