Re: compile error - gcc or cygwin ?

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Apr 11 10:06, Dave Korn wrote:
> >From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
> > Is that a stardate?  Probably not, the Stardate calculator
> > http://www.route56.com/startrek/stardate.html says that's
> > Fri, 03 Aug 2266 09:42:00 GMT
> 
>   From the source:
> 
> ---------------------<snip!>---------------------
> // TOS- SD 0 = January 6, 2266
> // 1 SDU = 18000 s (4.8 SDU = 1 day)
> TOS = Date.UTC(2266, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0);
> 
> // Star Trek I intermediate - SD 7320 = March 11, 2270
> // 1 SDU = 600000 s (0.144 SDU = 1 day)
> STI =  Date.UTC(2270, 2, 11, 0, 0, 0);
> 
> // Movies II-VI - SD 8076.0 = 25 July 2284
> // 1 SDU = 180000 s (0.48 SDU = 1 day)
> CFS = Date.UTC(2284, 6, 25, 0, 0, 0);
> 
> // TNG - SD 18561.6 = April 18, 2340
> // 1 SDU = 31500 s (1001 SDU ~ 1 year)
> TNG = Date.UTC(2340, 3, 18, 0, 0, 0);
> ---------------------<snip!>---------------------
> 
>   Blimey.  I know there's relativity to take into account and all that, but
> even so, the stardate seems to be a fairly elasticy concept of time.  Anyone
> who didn't know it was all real might think they had just been making up
> numbers at the start of each episode with little regard for internal
> consistency!

AFAIK, there wasn't any consistency of star dates in TOS at all,
It was just a funny idea to communicate "hey, that's future".

Btw., sometimes I'm wondering about the sophisticated mathematics
in the future, which is able to express space coordinates using
a two-dimensional system (as in "space coordinates 246.3 by 872.5",
used in VOY, for instance).  I guess that's because space in TV
must match the two-dimensional structure of the TV screen...


Corinna