Customize starting year of current era

Feature Requests
#1

This is probably too niche, but I figured I’d submit anyway.

Let’s call the ongoing era the Current Era, and the previous era (negative years) the Ancient Era.

My issue is this: the Current Era starts in what in-universe is called year 1:1 or 1:01. Because I can’t stylize it that way, I treat it as year 101 in Aeon Timeline. This means that the previous era (with negative years) is off by a century in my calendar, and so are any date calculations that cross year 1:01.

I would like the ability to customize the current era to start at year 101 instead of year 1, such that Year 1 Ancient Era would be calculated as being 1 year before Year 101 Current Era. Essentially I want to be able to remove years 1-100 from the calendar entirely so that they’re not shown or counted.

#2

In Aeon Timeline, the era is defined as the restart of the year count. Therefore, I hardly believe that such gaps fit into the concept of the program’s internal calendar calculation. Besides, such a change would only support a workaround on your part, so it wouldn’t solve your original problem, would it?

Perhaps a workaround can be found with the available resources that will allow your annual count to be displayed? We have previously seen examples here in the forum of how a granular definition of eras can be used to create rather unusual calendars. See the Zodiac calendar thread.
You could consider designing a similar solution. Programming skills are an advantage here.
How is your fictional calendar defined in terms of the exact counting of years and months? How long is the time span that needs to be taken into account?

#3

Thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate the suggestions!

So the full calendar is this:

  • Ancient Era: infinite, backwards
  • Current Era: infinite, forward, divided into 100-year Ages but continuous year counts across the ages.

The first Age is actually only 99 years, because it starts in year 1 (1:01), but all other ages have a year 0 because of the continuous count. So Age 1 goes from 1:01 to 1:99, Age 2 goes from 2:00 to 2:99, and so on. The years being displayed as 101, 102, etc instead of 1:01 is really not much of an issue.

Years are roughly equivalent to real world, 365 days, 12 months of 30 or 31 days each.

Right now I have these Ages as events, and that’s fine because they’re not super important to the date itself. All the story dates are in Age 9 anyway, so all previous Ages + ancient era are only needed for world history dates.

Treating each Age as an era in the Aeon Timeline sense doesn’t seem like it would solve my problem, because as you said each era restarts the year count, which for my purposes is worse. Setting the Ages as eras would only be helpful if I could then also customize the number each Age’s years start with.

Even in terms of world history, most of the events are going to be in the Current Era. So admittedly, even if the ideal setup was available it would just solve a very small detail that will almost never come up in my regular use.

Thanks again for the reply, always fun to see what creative workarounds others come up with!