[Remind-Fans] Lunar Calendar

[Marc Herbermann]

This is my first time to write something to you. I have been checking various calendar programmes in the last couple of months and currently I prefer using just two or three of them. I like the elegance and the wide range of possibilities of Remind, so it is among my preferred programmes.

A few months ago, I was trying to display lunar calendar Korean holidays.

There are seven of these variable days in the Korean calendar (compare http://www.lifeinkorea.com/calendar/holidays.cfm ). On these days, people in public institutions usually don't work. So lecturers at Korean universities using Remind may write for the next year:

OMIT Feb 02 2011 MSG  Seollal, Korean New Year%
OMIT Feb 03 2011 MSG  Seollal, Korean New Year%
OMIT Feb 04 2011 MSG  Seollal, Korean New Year%
OMIT May 10 2011 MSG  Buddha's birthday%
OMIT Sep 11 2011 MSG  Tschuseok, Korean Thanksgiving Day%
OMIT Sep 12 2011 MSG  Tschuseok, Korean Thanksgiving Day%
OMIT Sep 13 2011 MSG  Tschuseok, Korean Thanksgiving Day%

According to Wikipedia, "Korean New Year generally falls on the day of the second new moon after winter solstice, unless there is a very rare intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year." Buddha's birthday is celebrated on the 8th day of 4th lunar month. Tschuseok is a three-day holiday in Korea around the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar.
Thus the Korean calendar has just a few exceptions based on the lunar phases.

It is quite unhandy to change the dates for these shifting days every year. I tried to solve the problem in spite of my limited understanding of Remind.

First I have defined the date of the winter solstice:

SET WSW '2010/12/21 at 23:38'

And then:

fset sollal(x) (moondate(0,(moondate(0,x))+2)))%
REM [sollal(WSW)] MSG Seollal %b.

fset sollal(x) displays the main Seollal holiday. I wanted to find another expression or go on like this using one with more brackets for Buddha's birthday. But with all my attempts, I just could display the second moon period after WSW. I assume that there is a way to show the 8th day of 4th lunar month? Then I suppose it would be easy to find an expression for Tschuseok and then we will have completed the display of the Korean lunar calendar.

Regards

Marc




Am 27.12.2010 00:58, schrieb David F. Skoll:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 00:27:30 +0900
> Tony Sim <y2s1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry.  I don't mean to spam, and I certainly need to be less
>> hasty when posting, but turns out, hebrew and chinese calendars are
>> in fact different types of lunisolar calendars.
> That's true.  Unfortunately, Remind does not have support for the Chinese
> calendar (nor for other types like the Islamic, Mayan, etc. calendars.)
>
> If someone would like to contribute code, I will consider adding it.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
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(...)

so, back to the original questions: are there ways to use remind with
chinese lunisolar calendar?  if so, how would i set the date?

and thanks for reading my very spammy request.

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM, Tony Sim <y2s1982 at gmail.com> wrote:


> > Oh wait, I think I made a mistake. haha
> > I just did a research on what I thought of as a lunar calendar and found
> > out that it's really the lunisolar calendar, which is represented in remind
> > as the hebrew calendar.  I had no idea haha
> >
> > well, still, the question stands: how do i set a date using lunisolar
> > dates?  and would i need to follow the Hebrew convention for it?  is there a
> > way to simply use numbers to denote appropriate month?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Tony Sim <y2s1982 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
>> >> Are there any way to use remind with Lunar Calendar days?
>> >> I'm trying to use it with Korean holidays and few other birthdays (some
>> >> more traditional people still only honor their birthdays in lunar years in
>> >> Korea), but I can't figure out how to put them in short of finding out their
>> >> dates manually using external calendar tools... which sort of sucks :(
>> >> So are there any way of making use of Lunar Calendar days to mark a date?
>> >> Notice, I don't need to produce a calendar that follows Lunar calendar
>> >> dates.  I just want to mark dates that are represented only in Lunar
>> >> calendar.  Does this make sense?  and if so, are there any such way?
>> >>
> >
> >
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