Character Age should take into account month of birth, not only year
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Character Age should take into account month of birth, not only year
New Feature Addition · Calendars · Created by GardnerL
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calendar age current-date
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
If I set a character to have a birthday in the 3rd month in the year 2000, if my world's current date is the 1st month of 2022, his age will display as 22. Age should take into account month and even day when calculating, not only year. Here is an example of someone with the same issue: https://www.reddit.com/r/WorldAnvil/comments/phqj9k/how_to_calculate_a_characters_age_with_month/How does this feature request address the current situation?
Self-explanatory, this seems like a minor design oversight.What are other uses for this feature request?
None.The Team's Response
Hello there :) Creating this for simple Gregorian calendars is not difficult but over 80% of the worlds in World Anvil use non-gregorian calendars which complicates things a lot. It is our plan to enhance this system significantly when we integrate the new timing system into it but not earlier since while it looks like it will solve one issue it will generate many more
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by Beric
on 2023-01-15 21:53Considering how designers are allowed to craft their own calendars, I'm afraid this might not be possible to do. But if it is possible, I agree this would be a very good thing to have.
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by zekompozer
on 2023-01-11 05:40Full date (month, day, year, epoch, era, whatever) would be great, especially since we can define them ourselves.
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by PhntmDrgn
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by DMFW
on 2023-01-03 21:38I have noticed this also and it would be nice to have it work with the full dates if supplied. Whilst I understand that the different calendars would make the calculations potentially a little different from an "off the shelf" date comparison, the custom calendars are still based on simple number progressions for the months and days and it should only be a question of comparing the month numbers (and day numbers only if we are in the same as the birth month). If you wanted to calculate the exact number of days after a birthday into a specific year, that would be harder (due to variable days in months) but it is not necessary for this basic request.
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by Kuba13805
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by amelianite
on 2023-01-02 04:45Yes, yes, yes! This is a major reason why I manually imput my characters' ages instead of using the categories.
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by Eloran7
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by Horazath
on 2023-01-01 23:37This is a great idea. It need not even be complicated. It'd just be "if (currentMonth > birthMonthage++;};
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by ☀Synemon~Plana☀
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by Fox Desert0
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by finaldraftrpg
on 2023-01-01 22:50I like the idea, even if the implementation seems like it might be complicated.
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by tim-in-a-box
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by A Revolutionary Mlem
on 2023-01-01 14:23I agree it would be very nice, but I imagine it would be very complicated due to the varying calendars. Would love to have this if it's (reasonably) possible though!
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by A Thundering Velociraptor
on 2023-01-01 10:04 -
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by KaiserWilliams
on 2023-01-01 09:47This would be nice to have so long as it doesn't break anything.
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by Pete Nelson
on 2023-01-01 06:55Agreed, but this might be harder to implement than it seems, since different worlds may have different calendar systems, making the date calculation not quite so straightforward.
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by GrandMoffWow
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by PrismCoalition
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by SebGreg732
on 2022-12-31 18:45This is a great idea. While the ability to insert an override age exists, this needs to be manually updated, which can be awkward for keeping track if the world's date progresses (e.g. if it is an RPG world). Moreover, if both a date of birth and a date of death is included, then an age iof death s automatically added and doesn't seem to be able to be overridable at all.
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by JetpackMonkey
on 2022-12-31 18:42Fantastic suggestion! It would also be good if the day of birth could be taken into account, if possible.
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by Naynersi
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by A Roaring Kitten
on 2022-12-31 18:32YES. Calculating by year makes absolutely no sense, when you can set the current time of your world by day and month. What's the point of being able to set the day and month of your world, if your characters' ages aren't going to be calculated the same way?
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by Aria Nicest Reynard
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by MaximusErebus
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by ss2020
on 2022-12-31 17:41With all the possible calendars, I am not sure this is possible. But if it is, I am for it.
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by GardnerL
on 2022-12-31 08:28
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