I am not sure if there is a standard yet for time on other planets. The
only significant off-planet activities were the moon missions of the
early 1970s, and those only lasted a few days each. The astronauts just
used earth time. I don't know offhand if they used Houston Time or Zulu
Time (same as UTC and GMT) or what. The moon was so close and the
speeds used to get there were so slow that relativity was insignificant.
Even when we just go to Mars, we have problems. The second is a
well-defined time unit our explorers would use that. But Mars is far
enough from the earth that you can't just use Earth time. And of course
its day and year are very different lengths from ours.
--Tammy Nowotny
Steve Bennetts (Steve Linden) wrote:
l10n (localization):
I am not particularly fond of indexed substitutions, I prefer
name/value pairs, because it gives the translator a little more
context, i.e. it is easier for a translator to look at "At [TIME] on
[DATE], there was [EVENT] on planet [PLANET]" then "At {1,time} on
{1,date}, there was {2} on planet{0,number,integer}."
Our current compromise proposal would look something like this:
std::string bar(const LLSD& sdargs)
{
LLUIString foo = getString("bar"); // bar = "At [DATE,time] on
[DATE,date], there was [EVENT] on planet [PLANET,integer]";
foo.setLLSDArgs(sdargs);
return foo.getString();
}
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