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Old 10-01-2012, 02:59 PM   #8
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Because this is supposedly the most customizable baseball sim ever and I should be able to start a baseball league in the year 1256 or change it to whatever year I wish at any point or be able to see which players have the most errors in the year of the rabbit. Just because, that's why.
Even without this feature it remains the most (only?) customizable baseball sim ever.


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Also, all cultures have names for their years. For instance, in the U.S we have named this year Anno Domino Two Thousand and Twelve. I should be able to have that as the date for my league if I want.
Of course you can. The short form for "Anno Domino (sic) Two Thousand and Twelve is 2012. You could use the long form as the league file name.

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Also, all cultures have names for their years. For instance, in the U.S we have named this year Anno Domino Two Thousand and Twelve. I should be able to have that as the date for my league if I want.
To paraphrase Tonto, "what do you mean we ... ...".

I don't think you can claim your naming convention as culturally US. I'd suggest it may be used in a lot of other non-US cultures. Inside the US some people may say Twenty twelve CE or Two Thousand Twelve CE. Many many more people in the US say the same words but omit CE unless it's required for clarity. I was taught in school that the "and" is superfluous and should be dropped. Most technical people I know US or otherwise don't use the "and".

There are multiple ways of expressing calender years as words. This is not a culturally based method and it's not analogous to Chinese culture or others that may have a distinct naming convention using words that don't describe a number.
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