EarthChronicle.com Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Your dates are all from longest time unit to shortest: year, month, day... except your clock. What's Up??

All of "our" dates do go year, month, day, however your computer is programmed for whatever your local standard is. The US standard orders the units month, day, year, and the European standard orders them day, month, year. Our clock is a simple Javascript that renders your local time & date by getting the information from your computer clock. So the date is rendered in your computer's default date format, rather than ours.

I'm trying to look at the images at EarthChronicle.com Atlas but the site says come back in an hour?

This is one of the major downsides to being a small volunteer operation at this point. EarthChronicle.com Atlas has beautiful images, but they are therefore much larger than the average webpage on the chronicle. Therefore,it's the Atlas that has the most problems with going down. Basically, since we can't afford a real website, we're limited by Yahoo's policies that govern free websites. The problem here is that Yahoo only allows 4.2MB of data transfer on a free account each hour, otherwise we'd be too much work for them. Now 4.2MB is a lot for the chronicle, but we have roughly 15MB of images on the Atlas. So you can pretty easily use up all the data transfer yourself as you check things out. This is one of the reasons we'd really like to upgrade. There are even more images for the Atlas that we'd love to use but there's no storage space (15MB is our max), and even if we had more, it would just be that much more difficult for you to see them all until we get more data transfer.