A short explanation regarding the 'Timestamp' feature as used in the Maiden campaign.

The first entry is an indication of how certain the date is (on a 0-9 scale). The lower the number, the more certain the date is. For example a '0' means the event took place on Terra, '1' that it took place in the Sol system, '2' that there was direct psychic contact between the event and Terra, '3' there was indirect psychic contact with a category '2' source, and so on, until a '9' is an approximate date that could be off by a decade or more.

The second entry is the current 'date' ranging from 000-999. Each period is approximately 8 hours long (3x365=1095; so its slightly shorter than 8 hours). For simplicity you can assume that 3 periods = 1 day (or divide the current period by 3 to find which day it is).

The third entry is the current year, ranging from 000-999. So 996 is the 996th year of the current millennium. Year 999 is considered the last year in the Millennium; year 000 marks the beginning of the new.

The last entry is the current millennium. So the current year is 40996.

999.999.M41 marks the end of the current millennium. 000.000.M42 is the first date of the next millennium.

Sample Timestamp: 7.113.996.M41