The Traditionalists Win Again
If you’re viewing the Chronofile in your browser instead of a feed reader, you’ll probably notice a peculiar date format associated with each post now. Thanks to a little curious thinking and community effort, all content on the blog is now dated in compliance with the Yoiul Conference calendar and marked in EVE Standard Time (ET, EST, or GMT).
One of the first fiction-related question I had when initially researching EVE was “when?” When does all this take place? What year? And through research I came to find some of my favorite lore in the EVE Chronicles archives: Time & the Astrologer.
Take time to read the story if you haven’t before, but for the sake of explanation, the short of it is this: When all of the empires came together, they had no common language for determining time. So a few groups formed based on different time-telling philosophies, and they were to hold a conference on a Jovian ship called the Yoiul—hence, the Yoiul Conference. Politics won the day, and ‘the Traditionalists’ determined that dates would be set on an ancient 365 day planetary calendar, with 24 hour days.
The year would start at year 1 from that moment forward. The conference, to the date of this posting, happened 112 years ago (23236 A.D.). Thus, this year is YC-112.
For some more info on EVE and time:
• EVElopedia
• EVE Timeline
• Grismar’s EVE Wiki: EVE Time
Special thanks to Krispy Dingo, Jorshan, and Xeross for their help. Check out Krispy Dingo’s post here for the code to change it on your own blog.
