I was chatting with someone about dates and days.
The question was : why does the date look right (regardless of the game year)
but the day is off ?

The answer is that the math on day date was wrong.
If it were calculated by 7 days and 4 yrs for leap year
then game date set to 2038 would result in day and date being correct representation
on today's day date.

I realize that will break some time locked scripts.
It may just help others sleep better.

Anyways is just a thought that came up while in chat.

Also is there a way to put an escape pod back into a ship that has been podded???

Might be a good idea if we can buy life pods at stardock to put back into a ship.

Kinda off topic :/

I'm not sure I follow exactly what you're saying here, but the projected date is correct. On August 9, 2022 (today's TW date), it will be a Tuesday, not a Monday.

Right, it's today's date, plus 10 years, ran thru the day algorithm. So the date is
10 years off, but the day is whatever day it would be on that future date.

Today is Aug. 10th .. tuesday 2010
the game is Wed Aug 10, 2022

what I'm saying is if the future were
set to Tuesday Aug. 10th 2038

then todays day Tuesday would be the same day.

This is all I'm saying.
That was the topic of a conversation on TS3 one night.

Oh, so you're saying to pick a time difference that results in the day being the same as it is now, but in the future?

The reason the time difference is 12 years is because it was set to 2002 when TW2002 was in development in 1990, and it continues to advance as if the game takes place 12 years in the future.

You might be interested to know that in my own version of TW fiction, the year 2002 is in a different calender that begins in our year 2084, so it's really a little over 2000 years in the future. And there are 10 days in a Galactic Standard week. But don't expect any of that to show up in the classic game.