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== Use with caution on in-universe pages == | == Use with caution on in-universe pages == | ||
Please note that this template, and really everything in [[:category:age calculation templates]] should be | Please note that this template, and really everything in [[:category:age calculation templates]] should be '''used with caution''' on in-universe pages. They all assume that '''there is no year zero''', which [[T:YEARS|our in-universe rule on years]] does not. This is because there are several in-universe sources, not the least of which is the [[Doctor Who (TV story)|1996 movie]] and its novelisation, which assume that there ''is'' a year zero. For ease of calculation, our in-universe time calculation templates, like {{tl|timeline}}, are therefore based on a different principle than this one — namely, that year 0 '''does exist'''. | ||
In practice, this means absolutely ''nothing'' to the calculation time of between two dates, so long as you're trying to figure out the distance between any two dates after 1/1/1 [[AD]]. | In practice, this means absolutely ''nothing'' to the calculation time of between two dates, so long as you're trying to figure out the distance between any two dates after 1/1/1 [[AD]]. | ||
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