Update 2010-02-13

Since the caverns were opened again recently, we were able to perform new measures to increase the accuracy of the Pod Age calendar calculations. The results of these measures have already been implemented into the calculation functions used by this calendar which enable it now to calculate the Pod Age time/date as precise as never before.

The time calculation explained

The pod map shows that one day of the pod age lasts 13 Partavotí (NTS). We know from DRC data that:

1 Har (NTS; D’ni year) = 10 Válítí (NTS)
1 Válí (NTS; D’ni month) = 29 Yartí (NTS)
1 Yar (NTS; D’ni day) = 25 Partavotí (NTS)

By information from RAWA, we also know that 1 Har (NTS) = 365d 5h 48min 45sec = 31,556,925sec. Therefore 13 Partavotí (NTS) are about 15h 43min 4.8310345sec.

The first "time zone" that was "discovered" was the Negilahn time, named N at that point. The Negilahn time calculation starts at 2007-03-03 18:33 UTC (one of the first times a Negilahn portal appeared). This is day 0 of the calculations.

When there were other pods (and therefore time zones) discovered, a new universal pod age time zone was invented. This universal time zone is called UPT/0 (Universal Pod Age Time; the zero stands for longitude 0) and has the old Negilahn time as a basis. The difference between Negilahn time and UPT/0 is about 0.0404 pod age days. The four accessable pods got their own time zone, named UPT/N for Negilahn time, UPT/D for Dereno time and so on.

Credits

This calendar became reality mainly because of the great observations and documentations that were made available through open communication and discussions by numerous explorers on http://www.mystonline.com/.

Therefore we thank all explorers who made our work possible. We also thank all explorers who gave us feedback on the graphical calendar, offered their assistance and help and inspired us to extend the calendar. Special thanks go to Qvist, Hamsta, Ursli and George who made screenshots from Negilahn available to us.

The layout of the graphical calendar is based on artwork available at http://www.mystonline.com/.

Also thanks to Rahul Mittal for his JavaScript code to convert a Gregorian Date to a Julian Date.

Technical information

This calendar is best viewed in a Gecko-based browser, i.e. Firefox, Mozilla, SeaMonkey. It also works in Internet Explorer 7, but does not look as nice as viewed in a real browser. The calendar should not work in older IE version.

It requires enabled JavaScript and a correct system time.

Legal

The.Modificator & Mucol, March/April/May 2007, February 2010
Calendar Version: Release 6