Merge branch 'master' of linz:/srv/git/tricorder

[tricorder.git] / js / tricorder.js

diff --git a/js/tricorder.js b/js/tricorder.js
index 3ab7ee948fe0f41b15b6723efffcf05cff3403f8..3887a533936ad8b028c5d329f47490dd5b4fb66c 100644 (file)
--- a/js/tricorder.js
+++ b/js/tricorder.js
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ window.onresize = function() {
 }
 
 function updateStardate() {
 }
 
 function updateStardate() {

+  // Stardate rules foggy at best. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardate
+  // and the Memory Alpha article linked there for more details.
+  // We roughly lean on TNG scale by splitting an Earth year into exactly 1000
+  // units, but we put the 0 point at the TV premiere of The Original Series.

   if (!gStardate)
     gStardate = document.getElementById("stardate");
 
   if (!gStardate)
     gStardate = document.getElementById("stardate");