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 <[email protected]> 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 '2010/12/2...@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 > _______________________________________________ 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
