Community Suggestion: Add leap year exceptions so we can have a proper Gregorian calendar
Add leap year exceptions so we can have a proper Gregorian calendar
Feature Upgrade · Calendars · Created by Fociño
accepted
calendar chronicles leap Gregorian leap-year Julian
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently, even if calendars in the Chronicles feature do permit setting up leap years, there are no exceptions in regards of skipping years that are evenly divisible by certain numbers (which is how the Gregorian calendar actually works, as well as the Revised Julian). We are only capable to have the basic original Julian Calendar, where leap years happen every 4 years and that's it, without exceptions.How does this feature request address the current situation?
Adding a new field of "except evenly divisible by" or similar, to avoid such year from being a leap year, would fix the inability to have a Gregorian Calendar in World Anvil. But if you wanted to take it further, maybe some sort of equation field, or some extra exception options (evenly divisible, having remainders of X when divided by Y...) would make World Anvil able to have a Revised Julian Calendar ("in the Revised Julian version, years evenly divisible by 100 are not leap years, except that years with remainders of 200 or 600 when divided by 900 remain leap years, e.g. 2000 and 2400 as in the Gregorian calendar") or any other complex calendar like lots of players seem to want to be able to do yet they can't.What are other uses for this feature request?
It could eventually make its way to the Timelines feature too, whose calendars can't even add leap years yet. World Anvil has a lot of potential for complex worldbuilding yet it lacks some basics in this area, and many players are waiting hopefully.Follow up
It is not true that this has been suggested before, as far as I understand. In https://www.worldanvil.com/community/voting/suggestion/a17dd49b-5aca-4e16-befd-72ab2271e46a/view it was suggested to simply add leap years ("Make it possible to add leap days that occur every x years" is equal to adding simple leap years). It is not the same I'm asking, please, reread my suggestion.
The more I explore WA the more impressed I am with its features. It's definitely not just "a lot of potential"; it's rich in really complex features and it's definitely on its way of becoming The definitive woldbuilding tool. I'd say it's just the calendar/time area that is not in par with the rest in terms of complexity, imo.
The Team's Response
Thanks for the suggestion! We're accepting this for investigation/discussion. If we decide to go forward, it will be as part of the planned Time Update (don't expect it soon).
Current score
40/300 Votes · +9803 points
Votes Cast
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+300
by Violin99
on 2024-10-19 08:47 -
+100
by Jaycham122
on 2024-10-19 06:30 -
+300
by Racussa
on 2024-10-18 20:11 -
+100
by LittleRaider
on 2024-10-18 18:41 -
+300
by Kalilinai
on 2024-10-18 17:10 -
+300
by PoppaeaSabina
on 2024-10-18 16:58 -
+1
by bphilippe
on 2024-10-18 15:56 -
+300
by tjtrewin
on 2024-10-18 14:56 -
+300
by kaixabu
on 2024-10-18 13:55 -
+300
by BattIeBear
on 2024-10-18 13:50I think calendars as a whole need some help, but I love this as a place to begin!
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+300
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+300
by A Lusty Mimic
on 2024-10-18 09:59 -
+300
by jrcsalter
on 2024-10-17 16:23 -
+100
by Gaëlle S.
on 2024-10-17 13:20 -
+300
by Plazed
on 2024-10-17 07:45 -
+300
by TimesChu
on 2024-10-16 21:10I support this. Timelines, overall, feel like they need to be much more nuanced in their implantation. As it stands, you could not use timelines to accurately mark events in Earth history, and Earth history should really be the floor in terms of possibilities.
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+100
by Lord Mcberry
on 2024-10-16 08:55 -
+300
by Kveldulfr83
on 2024-10-15 22:40 -
+1
by WeStanNikolai
on 2024-10-15 16:16 -
+300
by BoyWondamus
on 2024-10-14 22:26 -
+300
by Barbarossa Sparklebeard
on 2024-10-14 22:10 -
+300
by Bambam57
on 2024-10-14 15:18 -
+300
by A Cute Mimic
on 2024-10-13 13:54 -
+100
by Reaper89
on 2024-10-13 13:52 -
+300
by Adcheryl
on 2024-10-10 18:16 -
+300
by DaisyChick
on 2024-10-10 16:36 -
+300
by Dandrame
on 2024-10-10 13:56 -
+300
by MrBoo
on 2024-10-10 03:04 -
+300
by JoellaKay
on 2024-10-09 19:33 -
+300
by Tillerz
on 2024-10-09 18:20Alternative for implementing this easier than adjusting the existing calendar code: allow usage of the default calendar implementation of php or (whichever language is used in WA) as alternative to create a calendar from scratch, but with the option to rename weekdays and month names. That way we could have a calendar compatible to our real calendar, but allowing us to adapt it to our worlds. Checkbox: use Gregorian Calendar. And if you do that, the months and weekdays are preset, but editable (just the names, not their number).
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+300
by ss2020
on 2024-10-09 16:55 -
+300
by Scalenex
on 2024-10-09 11:34 -
+300
by Ratha
on 2024-10-09 11:15 -
+300
by A Beloved Orc
on 2024-10-05 05:37 -
+100
by Rilameth
on 2024-10-01 23:07 -
+300
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+300
by Dalf32
on 2024-09-30 06:27 -
+100
by TheMalachite.creates
on 2024-09-30 02:00 -
+100
by Michael Chandra
on 2024-09-29 11:48While complicated to build, these do allow for a system that fits more to both reality and our own creations.
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+1
by Amancham
on 2024-09-28 07:05This has been suggested before and has been accepted. See the response in this feature request for more information:
https://www.worldanvil.com/community/voting/suggestion/a17dd49b-5aca-4e16-befd-72ab2271e46a/view -
+300
by Fociño
on 2024-09-28 01:26
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