1 Apr 2008 04:39
Changes to emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-china.el,v
Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
2008-04-01 02:39:28 GMT
2008-04-01 02:39:28 GMT
CVSROOT: /sources/emacs Module name: emacs Changes by: Glenn Morris <gm> 08/04/01 02:39:28 Index: cal-china.el =================================================================== RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/calendar/cal-china.el,v retrieving revision 1.41 retrieving revision 1.42 diff -u -b -r1.41 -r1.42 --- cal-china.el 31 Mar 2008 07:40:36 -0000 1.41 +++ cal-china.el 1 Apr 2008 02:39:28 -0000 1.42 <at> <at> -27,21 +27,19 <at> <at> ;;; 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(Continue reading)
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