Multiple Calendar Syncing
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Users with multiple calendars don't seem to have a way to link all those calendars together to display the same day in different calendars. I suggest resolving this by having a "Primary Calendar", and a specific "Linking Date", usually the campaign start day, or the beginning date of a story. The user would set the year, month, and day as the Link Day, and all days going forward and backwards would align with Primary calendar and its "Link Day". Thus you could set the 5th day of the 3rd month of the year 2356 for your Primary Calendar, the 9th day of the 12th month of the year 4472 for a second calendar, and the 14th day of the 2nd month of the year 1203 of a third calendar as Link Days, and the Sync process would align the calendars to share moon phases, seasonal starts, and other important annual events.How does this feature request address the current situation?
By allowing calendars to sync up, users can easily move from one calendar to another to compare dates.What are other uses for this feature request?
Syncing calendars would allow events, holidays, seasonal starts/ends, and other important dates to be easily cross-referrenced, helping creators precisely place them to correspond with other cultures/races/ancestries/places in their setting and reducing the amount of time spent placing dates and events across all calendars. For example, placing the start of a winter season on one calendar would find the matching day/month on other calendars, reducing the need to manually add the start of winter to all of the included calendars.The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! This is closed for now as a project of such magnitude would require a much higher amount of support from the community.
Current score
55/300 Votes · +11903 points
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by LoreParmenter
on 2023-07-07 04:09 -
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by FalchionDelta
on 2023-07-06 18:28 -
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by terioncalling
on 2023-07-06 15:28 -
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by Barbarossa Sparklebeard
on 2023-07-06 13:15 -
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by AvalonArcana
on 2023-07-05 15:07 -
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by schetefan
on 2023-07-04 18:29 -
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by themrbeasley
on 2023-07-03 12:57 -
+100
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by Writing Bishop
on 2023-07-02 18:44 -
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by CannedStrawberries
on 2023-07-02 11:14 -
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by Auron Bladesong
on 2023-07-02 06:02 -
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by Emperor.Nero
on 2023-06-30 23:41 -
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by Mochimanoban
on 2023-06-30 21:11 -
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by oaster2000
on 2023-06-30 10:21I like the idea, especially as someone with a world that is supposed to have multiple calendars. The consideration is how necessary it is over other features, as Calendars need somewhat of an upgrade at some point. (My personal opinion, others may disagree) I think this is something maybe to look at but not an urgent feature.
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by Flamekatra
on 2023-06-30 07:02 -
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by macwithoutcheese
on 2023-06-30 03:12 -
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by prestonthedm
on 2023-06-29 15:37 -
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by The Sketchy Wizard
on 2023-06-28 22:49 -
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by Tijmuhn
on 2023-06-28 19:45 -
+300
by MGatta
on 2023-06-27 21:08This would save so much time and confusion *both during worldbuilding and in-play/at the table
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by A Revolutionary Dryad
on 2023-06-27 12:17 -
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by JoellaKay
on 2023-06-27 03:34 -
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by toffeeapple11
on 2023-06-26 23:26 -
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by Careen Ligh
on 2023-06-26 19:42 -
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by Galahad423
on 2023-06-26 18:18 -
+300
by Rayna Fairbell
on 2023-06-26 11:03 -
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by RavenPaladin
on 2023-06-26 08:35 -
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by Serbaayuu
on 2023-06-26 01:08 -
+1
by SebGreg732
on 2023-06-25 21:45 -
+100
by Alyvins
on 2023-06-23 16:39 -
+300
by Ellianette
on 2023-06-22 02:41 -
+300
by darthsuki
on 2023-06-22 02:31 -
+300
by JR Kenja
on 2023-06-20 21:01 -
+1
by Aluranai Phoenixrose
on 2023-06-20 12:33I would have supported this more, but I didn't have quite enough AC...
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by Hasmed
on 2023-06-20 08:01 -
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by Gangar4999
on 2023-06-20 02:50 -
+300
by Willow H.R. Harper
on 2023-06-19 21:07 -
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by Cursedvapors
on 2023-06-19 18:09 -
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by Bluboram
on 2023-06-19 16:54 -
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by Iluvrien
on 2023-06-18 22:00 -
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by Hollow Mind
on 2023-06-18 21:57 -
+1
by Liinaii
on 2023-06-18 21:33 -
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by Baalon
on 2023-06-18 00:27Great idea - it allows the syncing not only of cultures, religious bodies who establish their own founding as a starting time period, and those kingdoms who restart their calendars with each new ruler.
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by A Adorable Dragon
on 2023-06-17 23:50 -
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by A Goodhearted Kobold
on 2023-06-17 22:14 -
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by Moonlight Bard
on 2023-06-17 12:50This would be amazingly useful for sff writers who are coordinating several planets (or even several systems/galaxies/etc.) with different orbital distances, and therefore (if counting as we are accustomed), different year lengths.
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by A Uncontrollable T-Rex
on 2023-06-17 11:46i'd rather they touch on the other suggestions that keep piling up, but an "offset" value for a calendar could do this. It just needs to offset event dates.
Downside: wouldn't work with custom date overrides
AAAAND then it's a can of worms that takes months of time
so please just no -
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by A Adorable T-Rex
on 2023-06-17 09:44 -
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by Michael Chandra
on 2023-06-17 08:10Honestly this would be a really nice way to identify cultures that have/had their own calendars.
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by trainhighway
on 2023-06-17 07:32 -
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by A Lusty T-Rex
on 2023-06-17 07:08 -
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by ss2020
on 2023-06-17 05:54 -
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by Madame Vera
on 2023-06-17 05:28Oh, like how there's a gregorian calendar, chinese calendar, mayan calender and the like? this sounds like a cool addition if it's doable.Not only could you cross reference different cultures and eras, you could also use it on a smaller scale too. like a farmers almanac, or a seasonal vs political calendar. I like this.
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by Ratha
on 2023-06-17 03:46 -
+100
by Athevra
on 2023-06-16 23:21I imagine this is probably fairly complex to implement, but I agree that onboard calendar conversions or links would be mighty helpful.
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+300
by Technocrat1011
on 2023-06-16 22:15
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