Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
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Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
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Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#2Interesting, but the timeline seems to be inaccurate.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#3Interesting, but the timeline seems to be inaccurate.
It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#4It's also on my Linux.
So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article.
How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#5It's also on my Linux. So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?
That's the magic of open source.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#6Interesting, but the timeline seems to be inaccurate.
It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.
That explains it. I was confused when I read "Destruction of the Ring" a third of the way through, and "Fellowship begins Quest" at the very end.
I wonder whether the developers _could_ have put them in chronological order, ex. 12/13/3019 appearing before 03/18/3021; or if the format requires the ordering it has now.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#7Use `man calendar` for details on the file format. It's more of an "on this day in history" type list than actual timeline.
The data itself (LOTR dates) first appeared in 4.4BSD (though it was part of the file `calendar.history` [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/2.0.5/usr.bin/calendar... ]), and has since passed to FreeBSD (where the LOTR dates were split off into a separate file [ http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=11... ]) and subsequently Mac OS X.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#8Where do I file a bug report? The date of "Frodo & Bilbo's birthday" was actually given in the book as September 22nd. In my file it's 09/14.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#9Where do I file a bug report? The date of "Frodo & Bilbo's birthday" was actually given in the book as September 22nd. In my file it's 09/14.
I also recall seeing the date of the destruction of the ring given as 3/25, not 3/18.
Re: Need The Lord Of The Rings Timeline? It's On Your Mac
#10It's also on my Linux. So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article. How did FreeBSD stuff get into Linux though?
>> So this is not an "Apple" article at all despite the "Mac" in the name. It's a FreeBSD article.
The article is hosted on macobserver.com, which explains why it has 'Mac' in the title. Also, looking at the article itself it is clearly intended for casual/non-geek computer users. Seeing that OS X + Windows probably cover ~99% of this group, and the calender is not on windows (I suppose), it's not that strange that the article refers to Macs either.