# The Pendor Clock

This is code that's been around since 1996 or so, and is one of the
three first Javascript programs I ever wrote. It's just the "time of
day" counter for the fictional world that's the setting of my
long-running [space opera
series](https://www.pendorwright.com/journals/). It has its own
calendar, and unlike Star Trek, I had in mind what the "star dates"
would mean early on.

# Motivation

This is a slightly modernized version, just to see what it would be
like to write this in 2021. The answer is that not much has changed;
the code runs just fine, although `getYear()` has been deprecated,
replaced by `.geUTCFullYear()`. The syntax of 2021 Javascript is a lot
nicer than 1996, although there is a limit to how much density one can
achieve when it's a lot of fiddly calculations around converting
human-readable dates into Pendorian-readable ones.

What this project _really_ involves is preserving the basic elements
of prettier, eslint, vitejs, and typescript that I routinely use these
days as the basis of my Javascript work. Most of the configuration
files are short, as you'd expect from a vanilla javascript project
with a single source file and no framework, but they do include things
like sourcemap inclusion, minification, and using rollup to generate
proper EcmaScript-6.

# License

This code is released under the Mozilla 2.0 Public License. A copy of
the License File is included in this folder.