[isleyaardvark]

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

[ksmiley]

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.

[vec]

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.

[xyzzyb]

No, the calendar files are anniversaries not timelines.

Have some fun:

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

[graywh]

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