From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!5941ux!machaids!dlm Newsgroups: net.startrek Title: Re: Star Trek dating Article-I.D.: machaids.220 Posted: Tue Dec 28 10:44:04 1982 Received: Wed Dec 29 02:45:59 1982 References: ihuxk.259 Stardates, as described in Making, are not just dates AD. They are based on many things such as position in the galaxy, warp speed?, galactic date, etc. The 1992 is a Julian date, hence you cannot subtract Apples and Oranges(atari's?) to get the time between.