[Remind-Fans] Lunar Calendar

Mon Dec 27 09:57:49 EST 2010

Wow, you were more diligent about the issue than I was.  I imagined that,
but the thought of having to do that for year after year seemed bit
depressing for some reason.  I hoped there were more automated method.

I set out to find a program that might allow the conversion, and I found one
in LGPL:
http://www.vyvy.org/main/en/node/57

I had hoped that might somehow be used in association with remind.  The
trouble is, there are few more variable to the conversion than I knew what
to do with such as cycles of the years and leap year.  I suppose that's the
fault in my part.  Now since I have no idea how to program, I'll have to
plea for mercy to others out there who are interested in making remind more
international :)
One of these days, I'll have to learn to program...

Anyways, thanks to everyone who are reading/looking into this :)

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:21 PM, Marc Herbermann <herbermann at gmx.de> wrote:

> 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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