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Comment by isleyaardvark | Hacker News Reader

It's a list of calendar dates, not an actual timeline.

That explains it. I was confused when I read "Destruction of the Ring" a third of the way through, and "Fellowship begins Quest" at the very end.

I wonder whether the developers _could_ have put them in chronological order, ex. 12/13/3019 appearing before 03/18/3021; or if the format requires the ordering it has now.

It's probably out of order on purpose. I'm betting this was some of the test data that the developers used, and they just left it in when they finished.

No, the calendar files are anniversaries not timelines.

Have some fun:

    alias anniversaries="ack -a -h `date +"%m/%d"` /usr/share/calendar | sort"

My system has calendar.ubuntu with dates ordered by version number and calendar.debian with multiple groups of dates ordered by year.

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