Re: (ReacTor) Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars

On 22/06/2025 20.45, Tony Nance wrote:

On 6/20/25 2:50 PM, Michael F. Stemper wrote:

On 18/06/2025 21.32, Tony Nance wrote:

On 6/18/25 10:20 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

Counting the Days: Five SFF Approaches to Calendars
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So many different ways of measuring history and the passage of time...
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https://reactormag.com/counting-the-days-five-sff-approaches-to- calendars/

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Asimov’s Foundation series used Galactic Era and Foundation Era, depending on the work. Trantor used GE. Terminus used FE. I don’t remember when GE starts. FE starts in something like 12000GE, tied to the start of the Encyclopedia Foundation.

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According to stuff that I teased out of _Forward the Foundation_ some years
back, Seldon died in 12,069 GE, which was also 1 FE. So, presumably, FE started
in 12068 GE.

 

Nice. Thanks for tracking all that down.

 I got so engrossed in "what did the calendars look like?" that I
forgot about the point of James' post, which was more along the
lines of "when was the year zero/one?" To make up for that:
 <snip wonderful research and info about LOTR calendars>
 

 

I'd forgotten all of that. It has probably been 30+ years since I last read The Lord of the Rings. I should read it again some time.

 Well, I find it rewarding every time. Of course, the last time that you
read it was about when I set myself the rule of always waiting at least
twelve months between successive readings of it.