lee@leland.Stanford.EDU (Fung Lee) (06/16/91)
Archive-name: soc/china/chinese-lunar-calendar/1991-06-14 Archive: ahkcus.org:/src/unix/lunar* [192.55.187.25] Original-posting-by: lee@leland.Stanford.EDU (Fung Lee) Original-subject: lunar 2.0: Western/Chinese Calendar Conversion Program Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) This is a software release announcement. lunar (version 2.0) - a calendar conversion utility lunar [ -h ] [ -b ] [ -i ] [ -l ] year month day [ hour ] DESCRIPTION The lunar program performs date conversion between the Gregorian Solar Calendar (SC) and the Chinese Lunar Calendar (LC). Given a date in either calendar, the program also outputs the correspond- ing "shengxiao" (animal of the year) and "ganzhi" characters. Output may be displayed in English or Chinese. The date range currently covered is from about 1900 A.D. to 2000 A.D. Reported bugs in version 1.0 have been fixed. Thanks to those who have reported the problems in version 1.0. If you run "lunar 2.0" with "-h" option in a Chinese environment, such as cxterm, you will see the output in hanzi. The program "lunar 2.0" is now available on the ftp site "ahkcus.org". The pertinent file is ahkcus.org: src/unix/lunar-2.0.tar.Z Enjoy! Fung F. Lee and Ricky Yeung -- comp.archives file verification ahkcus.org -r--r--r-- 1 ftp source 17340 Jun 11 05:08 /src/unix/lunar-2.0.tar.Z found chinese-lunar-calendar ok ahkcus.org:/src/unix/lunar*