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# The Pendor Clock
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This is code that's been around since 1996 or so, and is one of the
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three first Javascript programs I ever wrote. It's just the "time of
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day" counter for the fictional world that's the setting of my
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long-running [space opera
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series](https://www.pendorwright.com/journals/). It has its own
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calendar, and unlike Star Trek, I had in mind what the "star dates"
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would mean early on.
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# Motivation
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This is a slightly modernized version, just to see what it would be
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like to write this in 2021. The answer is that not much has changed;
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the code runs just fine, although `getYear()` has been deprecated,
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replaced by `.geUTCFullYear()`. The syntax of 2021 Javascript is a lot
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nicer than 1996, although there is a limit to how much density one can
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achieve when it's a lot of fiddly calculations around converting
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human-readable dates into Pendorian-readable ones.
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What this project _really_ involves is preserving the basic elements
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of prettier, eslint, vitejs, and typescript that I routinely use these
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days as the basis of my Javascript work. Most of the configuration
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files are short, as you'd expect from a vanilla javascript project
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with a single source file and no framework, but they do include things
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like sourcemap inclusion, minification, and using rollup to generate
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proper EcmaScript-6.
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# License
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This code is released under the Mozilla 2.0 Public License. A copy of
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the License File is included in this folder.
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