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Stardate

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URL: http://reusablecode.blogspot.com/2009/01/stardate.html

Calculate the stardate in the 24th century Star Trek universe for a given Gregorian date in the real universe.

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  1. <?php
  2.     /*
  3.     Copyright (c) 2009, reusablecode.blogspot.com; some rights reserved.
  4.     
  5.     This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. To view
  6.     a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or
  7.     send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California
  8.     94305, USA.
  9.     */
  10.  
  11. 	// Returns the stardate for a given date.
  12.     function stardate($timestamp)
  13.     {
  14.         $season = date("Y", $timestamp) - 1947;
  15.         $episode = str_pad(round(1000 / 366 * (date("z", $timestamp) + 1)), 3, "0", STR_PAD_LEFT);
  16.         $fractime = substr((date("g", $timestamp) * 60 + date("i", $timestamp)) / 144, 0, 1);
  17.  
  18.         return $season . $episode . "." . $fractime;
  19.     }
  20. ?>

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