Cantr II Discussion Forum

Is there a formula to use to convert the cantr date (the days part, currently at 3491) into a real time date, or the number of days, rather?

Basically I want to be able to make a formula that converts cantr days into real time days. Like, 200 = ? 1000 = ? 3491 = ?

Since i do not know when Cantr started, I can't use that as a basis, and right now I am very tired so I can't do math like I used to. Thanks in advance!

Just tried to do math in the following way:

There are 20 days in a year, 8 hours in a day, 36 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute.
60 seconds to a real time minute.
To every 36 minutes, there is an hour, making it 40 Cantr hours in a real day.
Every cantr day there are 8 Cantr hours, meaning that there are 5 Cantr days to each real time day.
At 3491, dividing that by 5, there are 698.2 days since Cantr's conception. That makes for less than two years, Ive been playing since about... 2005 - 2006. Failed mathmatics somehow.

Or: If I do it so that every first set of numbers is real time and every second set is cantr time, I come out to... about 3 years. So somewhere my math is severely failing.

Nevermind, Cantr Wiki explains it better than the actual website -_-

It's actually very simple
1 cantr-second is 5 RL seconds. That's the whole formula.

Hmmm, I beg to differ.

From your "formula" there is no way of knowing how long a Cantr hour or day is.

8 x 36 x 60 = 17280
24 x 60 x 60 = 86400

86400 / 17280 = 5

So 1 cantr minute is 5 normal minutes
1 1 cantr hour is 36 x 5 = 180 minutes = 3 normal hours
1 cantr day = 24 normal hours

Where do you get 8 and 36 from in your original "formula"?

Xervicx wrote:Basically I want to be able to make a formula that converts cantr days into real time days.

Well, that's easy. 1 = 1

There's your formula.

EchoMan wrote:Where do you get 8 and 36 from in your original "formula"?

Those are the given timetables of cantr, as it says on it's main page...
"There are 20 days in a year, 8 hours in a day, 36 minutes in an hour."

So your formula left out 3/4 of the definition, but was all you ever needed?

But how do we know that a Cantr minute is not 49.6 seconds? ... and don't get me started on seconds. Let's just make this simple, a Cantr day is the amount of time it takes for the world to make one full revolution. I'm also sure their is a leap year of sorts that throws off consistency of ticks.

The answer to the ORIGINAL question, converting cantr dates to Gregorian dates, is not a simple one, because there have been many downtimes (long and short) where the online time counter hasn't advanced. So, it's not easy to do so, since there are interruptions.

For example, my oldest character spawned 529 cantr days ago, but it's been 617 days of real world elapsed time.

(Wow! That's the equivalent time as if cantr had been down every Saturday during that time period)

EchoMan wrote:So your formula left out 3/4 of the definition, but was all you ever needed?

Lol, I'm assuming people here know how the cantr time-frame looks, EchoMan, basic knowledge is preferable when you discuss a subject.

gejyspa wrote: (Wow! That's the equivalent time as if cantr had been down every Saturday during that time period)

Cantr was down for like a month at the end of 2010 if i recall.

Hell month.