If you like the looks of that, this (very) small and simple modification is for you! I made it for myself because I found the games silly "year" far less important than the actual turn.
Special thanks to homegrown for showing me the appropriate functions. Additional thanks to dlordmagic for further refinements, and to Requies for cleaning it up a bit more.
It is a simple modification, and I think this should have been on the main screen from the get-go. I would not presume to ask for any credit whatsoever for a mod this simple. In fact, far from asking credit, I would rather this become completely standard for Civ 4.
As a small other change I made, this mod removes(well, sets to 99) the 6 citizens restriction from the city screen. The downside to this is it will flood over to the main screen, but as you will rarely have more than 10 or so specialists, this isn't a real problem. What it is primarily for is for that annoying 7th or 8th special citizen, which causes no real problems with the city screen. This change is easy to undo if you do not like it, as it is near the top of the file. Neither of these changes result in any type of concrete gameplay change, and therefore does not affect balance or constitute cheating.
Just unzip it into your mods directory, load it and go.
UPDATE: Fellow fanatic dlordmagic has improved this mod. Out of the blue he swooped down and found a workaround fixing a rounding problem I was having, and greatly increasing the utility of the % function. It now shows two decimal places of accuracy (like 1.25%). I am posting the new version of it. Only the zero-started version is going to be posted unless someone requests the +1's from now on, as I decided the +1 was probably silly to begin with on my part.
UPDATE: With Requies help I have pretty much finalized the mod. I may attempt to add more and refine it in the future, but as it stands my original goal is achieved.
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