Talk:Timeline (Expanded Dune)

This timeline is extremely brief. More dates can be inferred from the books, like birth dates. Do we need a more detailed timeline (detailed as in entries, not descriptions of the entries)? MoffRebus 11:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

A note on calender designations
This article has a very nice time-line showing the association of dates between the Gregorian calender (the calendar currently in wide use today) and the Guild Calendar. That said, I have made a few corrections. First of all, there is no such thing as a zero year in the Christian calendar system that we use (the one that uses Jesus' traditional date of birth as a point of reference). If you have an event (i.e. a birth), you measure time from that point before or after (i.e. when were you ever a zero(0) year old after you were born).

Another point of correction is the actual date of the establishment of the current calendar system around the event of Jesus' birth as a start date, which was done in 1582.

Lastly, the precedent on this page has been to use the liturgical dating reference anno domini (or A.D.), instead of the more widely internationally-used Common Era (or C.E.). I believe C.E. was actually mentioned in one of the books, but I am not sure which and would like someone to help me verify the use or lack thereof. The A.D. label is traditionally acceptable, but it would help to know if the authors used the traditional or the modern designations. --Gethralkin 09:11, December 12, 2009 (UTC)