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 '2010/12/2...@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 <[email protected]> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Remind-fans mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans > Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind (...) 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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? >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind -- Nowon-Gu Sanggey-Dong, Jugong Apt. 408-309 Seoul 139-754 Republic of Korea Tel.: 0082-2-5042901 Mobil: 0082-10-6430-1068 427-803 Republic of Korea (ROK) www.positionen.blog.de _______________________________________________ Remind-fans mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/remind-fans Remind is at http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/remind
