Forum:CT Archive/BBY/ABY vs. GrS

I've recently been going through the articles on years and I've found some problems with the way years are written on WP. The way it currently is, the events of each year that happened from Month 1 to Month 12 are placed in the same BBY/ABY article, the only exceptions being 0 BBY (the three months leading up to the Battle of Yavin) and 0 ABY (the other nine months). However, according to Nathan Butler (in the context of having worked with Leland Chee on The Essential Atlas and not the fan-made SWTG) this is patently incorrect. Apparently, the BBY/ABY system is different from the GrS calendar in that it actually is relative to 3:3 (Month 3, Day 3) of each year, and wouldn't include the first two months of the same calendar year. Basically, 1 ABY isn't just another name for Year 36 as we currently treat it. My suggestions:
 * Move around the events in each year so everything from 1:1 to 3:2 falls into the preceding BBY/ABY year. This would require moving a lot of events and verifying a lot of dates, and some recalculation.
 * Retitle all year articles to their equivalent GrS year. This would require quite a bit of renaming and a significant amount of calculation on nearly every new article, as well as necessitating the use of a dating system that is infrequently mentioned at best in most sources.
 * Keep things as they are. This would require deliberately ignoring part of canon for the sake of convenience.

As you can probably see, it's not an easy decision. Any other suggestions would be welcome. — Milo Fett [Comlink] 03:45, September 26, 2009 (UTC)

Discussion
Renaming the articles as after/before Ruusan years would be considerably easier than GrS, but I didn't include it as an option because it's used even less frequently than GrS. — Milo Fett [Comlink] 03:45, September 26, 2009 (UTC)