Good Morning everyone I was going
through my old website files readin through and trying to figure out what would
be relevant today and what would not be
from the old website when I ran accross a seris of articles we ran
concerning the following! I have compiled all three posts here in massive post
for today's weblog as I have limited time at the library!
Star Date Update
A timekeeping system used to provide a
standard of galactic temporal reference, compensating for relativistic time
dilation, warp-speed displacement, and other peculiarities of interstellar
space travel. To those interested in the minutiae of star date computation read
on Star dating is the standard; Federation terminology for measuring date and
time. It is sequential only while a person remains in one place and time.
Keeping track of star date is harder than one might think on a faster than
light ship because of Einsteinium time compression, and the method for
computing star dates is complex. Thus the time between star date 2244.0 and
star date 2245.0 will be one day only if the ship remains at one location in
the star trek universe, but it may be entirely different if the ship travels at
Warp-Speed between two points.
Saturate is given in the form of XXXX.XX,
with ether one or two digits given after the decimal point. Star dates begin at
0000.00 to 9999.99; then they start over again. Star date 3305.06 would read as
“star date thirty-three oh five point six not star date three thousand, three
hundred five point six.”
Star date 0001.01 is the base date for January 1 2000 for reference
to star date system On this date the science council of Luna declares itself
independent of the governments of the U.S.A and Japan
Star Trek fans often create “Star dates”
from normal 20th century calendars dates by listing the last two digits of the
year, month expressed as a two-digit number, a decimal point, and then the date
expressed as two digit number. Thus July 4 2000 would be expressed as Star date 0007.04. This
is not the way Starfleet figures out the Star date.
Now
then I have looked up and dune a lot of research about star dates and how to
calculate them the best information that I have seen and/or found is James
Dixon’s website he had an article about stardates by Shane Johnson Here is the link to his
website below I suggest you retrieve this article it helped me a lot in
deriving this article so after clicking the link go to Notes and look up
stardates. Thanks to them and an un-named former friend who originally found
these documents for me, and who also contributed to this article thank you? Now
I can finally write the following update for my website for all of you to
enjoy.
James Dixon Timeline, Notes and Introduction: Index [Click Here]
I
am deriving this article from what I learned and how I calculate Star Dates For
Star Trek Voyagearl the Episodes. dedacation plauque and logs although these
may not be accurate they are only ball park figures but will get with me in the
ball park for a particular event and/or Captains Log in stead of arbitrarily
putting stardates at just a bunch of random numbers. If you want to calculate
your own star dates I think I came up with an easy method for doing so but let
it be known that I could not have done it with out retrieving the document from
the above website mentioned. I have
Started to Calculate Stardates using this system Starting with Earls Graduation
date Which is June 5th 2289 would roughly be translated into Stardate 8819.43
in the Star Trek Voyagearl Timeline According to their article in which I
used the following Calculations and
Stardates are derived from using the following table:
1
Year =10000 Stardate Units
1day=2.74 Stardate Unites
1
Hour= 0.114 Stardate Unites
1
minute=0.0019 Stardate Unites
1
Secound=0.0000317. Stardate Units
I have included the
NUMBER of days per month for your convenience:
JAN=31
FEB=28
JUN=30
JUL=31
AUG=31
SEP=30
OCT=31
NOV=30
DEC=31
How do you know if a
year is a leap year or not? Consider
these rules very carefully, or your calculations may be incorrect.
1. Years divisible
by four are leap years, unless...
2. Years also
divisible by 100 are not leap years, except...
3. Years divisible
by 400 are leap years.
Leap Year. don't
forget, people that there Is a leap year to take into account, 1 Year =10000
Stardate Units
(A Leap Year
=10002.74 Stardate Units)
So
if 1 year Equals 1000 Stardate Unites then 1000 Divided by 12 Equals 83.3333333
Then Adding the year you want to this date so if we add up June 5th
2289 the Stardate equals 2881.94
Here
is how I came up with that number Taking the year 2289 and adding to it
83.3333333 which equals 2372.3 then figuring out how many days are in each
month which was 186 days multiplied by 2.74 which Equals 509.64 then Adding the
two numbers together got me the Stardate of 2881.94 I took off the extra
three’s sinse I did not need the hour minute or second but if you need them
then you will have to calculate them in your calculation.
Another
example: December 1st 2298 would be 2298+83.3=2381.3; 335 days x 2.74=
917.9; 2381.3+917.9= Stardate 3299.2
In
Star Trek Voyagearl Episode Crisis in the Artilline Sector Part 1, I needed the
stardate for Jan 1st 2301 19:00 Hours which would translate into stardate
2389.24 if we use the above table and only keeping only the first two digits
beyond the decimal point and dropping the rest. Formulia I used is below
You
take the actual year you want to use.+Month=83.3333333 X How many Months; + How
Many Days x 2.74; +Hour 0.114 X Military Time: + the Minute=0.0019 X How Many+
the Second=0.0000317 X How many=Stardate
Now
I hope this helps all of you Trekies out their be able to create your own star
dates, so have fun and enjoy this update while I get back to writing my
Episodes.
2367.3333333+509.64
Sincerely
Captain Hedges
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