Library of Time – “The mission of this website is to create a collection of every calendar with a verifiable date at a specific point in time, as well as to display other methods of timekeeping. It is to be a celebration of time as counted by humans from all walks of life, displaying all of the unique ways different people chose to satisfy one of humanity’s earliest and most universal curiosities. This website, comprised of calendar information and a calculator to display the date in multiple calendars, is not a new idea. Many have built similar tools in the past, albeit at a much smaller scale, typically consisting of only 3 or 4 calendars. But much like how the Rosetta Stone allowed linguists to decode ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs by having the same passage written in Ancient Greek, Demotic, and Egyptian hieroglyphs (of which we had already known the Greek and some of the Demotic), these earlier websites have allowed me to calibrate unknown calendars to known ones. Thus, I have dubbed these phenomena Temporal Rosetta Stones, as well as referring to the discovery and study of them as Digital Archaeology. Temporal Rosetta Stones all seem to have come from a similar time in the history of the internet, when one-off websites were made for specific purposes rather than the general-purpose websites that we have today. These sites, built with simple HTML sporting plain text on colored backgrounds, genuinely feel ancient. And when the time comes that their maintainers cancel the project, forget to renew the domain, or pass away, then my fear is that much of their work will be lost. Some of these Temporal Rosetta Stones are primary sources, displaying information that cannot be found anywhere else, whether it’s because their creator had studied something legitimately niche or because they are documenting calendars that they themselves had created…Regarding the Library of Time, this website may never be finished, simply due to the fact that there are just too many calendars, cycles, and exceptions to be documented in my lifetime. For that reason, I constrained this website to being written in simple HTML and JavaScript, without a backend, so that it can be downloaded as a single file and run by anyone…”