Stardate

Calculates the Star Trek stardate and vice versa (Star Trek: The Next Generation convention).

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'ruby-stardate'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install ruby-stardate

Usage

2.0.0-p247 :001 > require 'stardate'
 => true

2.0.0-p247 :005 > t = Time.now + 400.years
 => 2413-11-26 18:35:34 +0100
2.0.0-p247 :006 > t.to_stardate
 => 90902.9

2.0.0-p247 :007 > 1513.1.to_time
 => 2324-07-06 10:44:32 +0200

Change the base date

The default base date is 2323-1-1 = 0.0. You can switch to the other standard base date 2005-1-1 = 58000.0 with

  Stardate.set_base_date_to_2005

and switch back with

  Stardate.set_base_date_to_2323

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request