From: Robert Kaiser <robert@widebook.box.kairo.at>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 21:04:05 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: add a comment about stardate rules
X-Git-Tag: production~4^2
X-Git-Url: https://git-public.kairo.at/?p=tricorder.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=af524a6f19f31a9ed98ecf8d9142eeaf63d7d7ca;hp=3ad3aa73b25816412c03cbb98016039bd03f659a

add a comment about stardate rules
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diff --git a/js/tricorder.js b/js/tricorder.js
index de33ae3..dbd188d 100644
--- a/js/tricorder.js
+++ b/js/tricorder.js
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ window.onresize = function() {
 }
 
 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");