fun with calendar schemes... :)

[katster]

Okay...

well, I learned some php doing that. %)

I wrote a couple programs that will do conversion back and forth between the Gregorian calendar (the one I live on and think in) and the Marraketh calendar (Marraketh is my fictional alt.universe, the place Katze comes from).

So yeah, even though it may not make much sense to anybody, you can find them at:
From the Marraketh calendar to the Gregorian calendar
From the Gregorian calendar to the Marraketh calendar

Now I have to find *another* project. ;)

[I really need an "I am a GEEK." icon.]

Comments

[rbos.livejournal.com]

hey, nice. I did a similar converter to the Constainian calendar and back. Used it to change the date function on a phpBB, too - see http://forums.constainia.net/ and look at the dates.

[eleri.livejournal.com]

*takes note*

Must show this to vaxjedi

One of these days

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

I'm going to dig into the Live-Journal source and figure out how to create arbitrary calendar systems. I want my LJ to use the Jewish Calendar, but I'm pretty sure if I made this generic, people would have lots of fun with it.

Shmuel, born 23 Chtarr 523. Anything important happen around then in your time-line ;-) ?? (You might want to change the titles on the actual BUTTONS, but I like your converter).

PHP is so cool. Have you messed around with the Smarty module yet? Very nifty for HTML-heavy pages. I have both PHP and the Smarty module runnig on my home PC. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

[katster.livejournal.com]

I have some notes on the calendar system here, although it doesn't cover years. Those were the original tables I was using to convert back and forth until I got tired of trying to make sure my dates lined up back and forth, and misreading and causing all sorts of messes. :)

Designing that thing in the first place, since my friend and I wanted to make it periodical, got crazy. ;)

-kat

Re: One of these days

[katster.livejournal.com]

I'm going to dig into the Live-Journal source and figure out how to create arbitrary calendar systems. I want my LJ to use the Jewish Calendar, but I'm pretty sure if I made this generic, people would have lots of fun with it.

Oh, I can imagine. When I was working on the project on Friday, a friend asked me if I'd be changing the dates on my blog over it. I hadn't thought about it, but it could probably be done. ;)

Shmuel, born 23 Chtarr 523. Anything important happen around then in your time-line ;-) ?? (You might want to change the titles on the actual BUTTONS, but I like your converter).

Right, I ripped the form off something else I did, so I wouldn't have to write the html over again. :) (It should probably be Convert or Get Date as opposed to Comment.)

And as for the days, I haven't had a chance to do the thinking to establish holidays. The two important dates I have is 1 D'Kta, which is the date of the Founding (and the Feast of the Joining is celebrated then every year) and 10 Agamon 534, which is the birthdate of the character that made all this world-creation happen anyway.

(Mine, as I note in the notes on the calendar (that file also has my original tables for finding dates, but it was a kludge) is 1 D'Kta 534. This is, despite what my friends say, coincidence.

PHP is so cool. Have you messed around with the Smarty module yet? Very nifty for HTML-heavy pages. I have both PHP and the Smarty module runnig on my home PC. Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

No, not yet. But I'm contemplating a site redesign on retstak.org, so I should probably go check it out, I'm notorious for including half a dozen includes in my stuff.

(I need to try to get Apache, MySQL, PHP and that running on my laptop so I can do HTML development away from the net.) ;)

-kat

[shmuelisms.livejournal.com]

You could also put BOTH converters on the same page, and make your system easier to use and maintain.

I have Apache, Tomcat (for Java), PHP and Postgres-QL (and a management app.) all running on my PC, so that I can mess with them. It was all pretty painless to set-up. I preferred Postgres-QL to MySql, mainly for reasons of heavy-load bearing. I wrote a web-app for a friend, and it had to be scalable to the corporate scale. GAAH! T'was much fun!

[katster.livejournal.com]

You could also put BOTH converters on the same page, and make your system easier to use and maintain.

I've been pondering that, actually. It turns out that it was easier doing the g2m than I expected it to be, and that's why I sorted it out into two different files. (I'm eyeing papers full of scribbles from when I was trying to work out the conversions, though.)

I think I need to figure out how to combine both files into one, and that's going to take a bit more PHP to figure out. But I can probably do it.

I have Apache, Tomcat (for Java), PHP and Postgres-QL (and a management app.) all running on my PC, so that I can mess with them. It was all pretty painless to set-up. I preferred Postgres-QL to MySql, mainly for reasons of heavy-load bearing. I wrote a web-app for a friend, and it had to be scalable to the corporate scale. GAAH! T'was much fun!

Yeah, I tried to put apache on here once, but it didn't work right. I need to figure out what I did wrong and reinstall it. :) I'm only really familiar with MySQL at the moment from having to do the final project, and while you have a point, I think most of the projects I'd be doing are small enough scale not to have to worry about that. At least, at the moment.

Right now, I'm sorta casting about for a new project to work on, seeing as how I've breezed through three or four projects in the last week. Guh. :)

-kat

[katster.livejournal.com]

Sweet. Mal joked around about putting mketh dates on the blog at the same time you suggested it, and I just might pull it off one of these days.

-kat