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    Traveler Calendar

    Running a Traveller game, I would have preferred to use the Third Imperium calendar but it does not have months.

    An actual Traveller calendar does have them as ship mortgage payments are in months.

    Using a classical calendar for now, but it would be nice if this could be fixed.

    Not a game breaker issue, but just a nice to do thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DwightLee View Post
    Running a Traveller game, I would have preferred to use the Third Imperium calendar but it does not have months.

    An actual Traveller calendar does have them as ship mortgage payments are in months.

    Using a classical calendar for now, but it would be nice if this could be fixed.

    Not a game breaker issue, but just a nice to do thing.
    In the Third Imperium era standard calendar there aren't really months per se, but when a month is mentioned it just means 4 weeks.
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    I understand that, been playing Traveller since the late 70's, however as ship payments are in months, it would be nice to have them separated that way in the calendar. Just a nice to do item.

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    I welcome an idea on how to address this to try and fit all. I myself manually track a calendar as the Mongoose 'current' era is 1105 constantly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MadBeardMan View Post
    I welcome an idea on how to address this to try and fit all. I myself manually track a calendar as the Mongoose 'current' era is 1105 constantly.

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    Well, I would have to think about that, I know that months in Traveler are all just 4 weeks long, it would be interesting.. .Im just to lazy to track manually so I just set a Gregorian calendar to 1105 and use that with variable months instead, but I am just lazy. If the Imperial calendar had months I would use that. I will think about that, maybe do a little research in how it used to be ( back in the late 70's ) and get back to you. Thanks for the response.

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    I do remember what I did in my old homebrew days, a year was 12 months of 4 weeks, and as it was a fictional calendar, I did not feel the need to make it 365 days exactly long. But you are trying to be more cannon so that probably wont work for you.

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    The calendar as presented in FG is the same as that detailed here: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Imperial_Calendar

    One line of the "Year" section is two weeks. Therefore, 2 lines is 4 weeks = 1 month.

    For example, I've decided that the first ship mortgage payment is due on Wonday (16), therefore the other payments are just 2 lines below:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trenloe View Post
    The calendar as presented in FG is the same as that detailed here: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Imperial_Calendar

    One line of the "Year" section is two weeks. Therefore, 2 lines is 4 weeks = 1 month.

    For example, I've decided that the first ship mortgage payment is due on Wonday (16), therefore the other payments are just 2 lines below:

    I did think about that, but would prefer months, the Gregorian calendar will work for now, while we are on the subject, how do you change the time, I can alter the date, but having difficulty altering the time of day

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    Quote Originally Posted by DwightLee View Post
    ...while we are on the subject, how do you change the time, I can alter the date, but having difficulty altering the time of day
    Info on how to use the calendar, including changing the time, is available in the Wiki here: https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...paign+Calendar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Trenloe View Post
    Info on how to use the calendar, including changing the time, is available in the Wiki here: https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...paign+Calendar

    Ah Ha!

    Ctrl key did it!

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