comparison lisp/calendar/cal-china.el @ 93477:92c1edaba777

(Commentary): Point to calendar.el.

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;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

;;; Commentary:

;; This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el,
;; diary.el, and holidays.el that deal with the Chinese calendar.  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.

;; Technical details of all the calendrical calculations can be found in
;; ``Calendrical Calculations: The Millennium Edition'' by Edward M. Reingold
;; and Nachum Dershowitz, Cambridge University Press (2001).

;; Note to maintainers:
;; Use `chinese-year-cache-init' every few years to recenter the default
;; value of `chinese-year-cache'.

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;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
;; Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

;;; Commentary:

;; 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'.