Hello George. On 14-Mar-00, you wrote: GG>> exactly how is this value calculated? what decides the year, day, month GG>> and current tick? GG> GG> I think[1] it's in seconds since 1970 but modified according to the GG> time rules in utils.h. my mud uses these timerules: #define SECS_PER_MUD_HOUR 60 #define SECS_PER_MUD_DAY (24*SECS_PER_MUD_HOUR) #define SECS_PER_MUD_MONTH (30*SECS_PER_MUD_DAY) #define SECS_PER_MUD_YEAR (12*SECS_PER_MUD_MONTH) so, according to you I should set beginning_of_time to 12*30*24*60*1100 if I want the mudyear to start at 1100. this equals 570240000. but when I set beginning_of_time to 570240000 I get a mudyear of 1777 upon reboot. -- /Damian/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ensure that you have read the CircleMUD Mailing List FAQ: | | http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | +------------------------------------------------------------+
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