File: cal-china.el.html
See calendar.el.
The rules used for the Chinese calendar are those of Baolin Liu
(see L. E. Doggett's article "Calendars" in the Explanatory
Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac, second edition, 1992) for
the calendar as revised at the beginning of the Qing dynasty in
1644. The nature of the astronomical calculations is such that
precise calculations cannot be made without great expense in time,
so that the calendars produced may not agree perfectly with
published tables--but no two pairs of published tables agree
perfectly either! Liu's rules produce a calendar for 2033 which is
not accepted by all authorities. The date of Chinese New Year is
correct from 1644-2051.
Note to maintainers:
Use chinese-year-cache-init every few years to recenter the default
value of chinese-year-cache.
Defined variables (12)
calendar-chinese-celestial-stem | Prefixes used by ‘calendar-chinese-sexagesimal-name’. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-saving-end | Sexp giving the date on which daylight saving time ends. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-saving-end-time | Number of minutes after midnight that daylight saving time ends. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-saving-start | Sexp giving the date on which daylight saving time starts. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-saving-start-time | Number of minutes after midnight that daylight saving time starts. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-time-offset | Minutes difference between daylight saving and standard time. |
calendar-chinese-daylight-time-zone-name | Abbreviated name of daylight saving time zone used for Chinese calendar. |
calendar-chinese-location-name | Name of location used for calculation of Chinese calendar. |
calendar-chinese-standard-time-zone-name | Abbreviated name of standard time zone used for Chinese calendar. |
calendar-chinese-terrestrial-branch | Suffixes used by ‘calendar-chinese-sexagesimal-name’. |
calendar-chinese-time-zone | Minutes difference between local standard time for Chinese calendar and UTC. |
calendar-chinese-year-cache | Alist of Chinese year structures as determined by ‘chinese-year’. |