Neocron Time vs Real Time [Math junkies plz]

[MrTrip]

Questions..

I've figured that 5 real life seconds = 1 neocron minute.

00:00:00 - 00:00:05 RL = 00:00:00 - 00:01:00 NC

So I'm building a function to calculate NC time, but I ran into a little issue..

Does Neocron account for leap years?




The year 2008 is evenly divisible by 4
2008/4=502
So it is a leap year.

The year 2006 is not evenly divisible by 4.
2006/4=501.5
So it was not a leap year.

The year 2000 is evenly divisible by 4.
2000/4 = 500
But it is also divisible by 100.
2000/100=200
Is it also divisible by 400? Yes it is!
2000/400=5
Thus the year 2000 was a leap year.



Neocron is in year 2830, it is not a leap year. 2832 however will become a leap year, unless Neocron ignores leap years. Also, does it even follow the February calendar properly? Or does it just give everything 31 days or 30 days?


[Edit]

I'm figuring that..

RL: Jan 30th 2010 20:26:51
NC: Jan 7th 2830 12:45:00

RL: 20:26:52
NC: 12:45:10
etc..until
RL: 20:26:56
NC: 12:46:00

10 seconds per real second.

I'm having a major brain fart right now, but I pretty much need to figure the time from that start date, to now, to figure how many NC minutes have gone by, to figure out the current NC time, and I need that formula.

I also need to account for leap years, and if NC has leap years, account for those also.

[CHA0S]

building a time machine to go look see if NC would be real? but aint the world supposed to go tits-up 2012?

[MrTrip]

building a time machine to go look see if NC would be real? but aint the world supposed to go tits-up 2012?

Naw. Well maybe, my debit card expires 12/12 so it might go tits up. Hope it doesn't before I get my new one in the mail.

[Bond.rc]

this guy (http://neocron.jafc.de/showpost.php?p=2028139&postcount=21) says that the whole ingame time is 1:10. that means 43 ingame years equal 4,3 real life years

but he (http://forum.neocron.com/showpost.php?p=1799695&postcount=24) says that in 4 years only 33 ingame years passed by cause 36,5 days equal 1 neocron year (2,4h = 1 nc day)

thats all i found in the german forum, but perhaps it helps =)

[Mr. Kassad]

That' something a Dev could answer best.
Especially because you cannot do bad things with that. :)

In fact I always was fascinated about the Neocron time. I wondered if certain things will happen at special years like leap years or pre calculated Dates for solar eclipses, etc.

[Biglines]

That' something a Dev could answer best.

hehe, devs that answer questions

but can't this be experimentally found? maybe from old screenshots with their dates taken from the file info?

[MrTrip]

hehe, devs that answer questions

but can't this be experimentally found? maybe from old screenshots with their dates taken from the file info?

Possibly, or I could just wait around until February in game to see if it skips over or calculates for it.

Though, we won't have an NC leap year for awhile. (At least 3 in game years? According to the formula for leap years.)

It would be nice to know just how the time system works. Its kind of dumb really, but I planned on having neocron.org display the time from in game to just be a kind of cool thing.

Best thing I could do I suppose, is assume that NC accounts for leap years and follows our same calendar and check up on the timer to see if its still calculating correctly. I just have to work out the formula.

[zii]

I would say that you have too much time on your Neocron hands.

[MrTrip]

I would say that you have too much time on your Neocron hands.

:D too much TIME...or NEOCRON TIME?! Because I never have enough Neocron Time, when its 1 Minute to 12 Neocron minutes !! IM AGING QUICKLY OVER HERE PEOPLE, I NEED THESE ANSWERS! Hahaha..