How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Wei-Wei Guo]

Dear all,

I want to make entries of my mum and dad's birthday by diary-anniversary. The problem
is their birthday is in Lunar calender (Chinese calender) fashion. Diary has things
like diary-julian-date, but I didn't find diary-chinese-something. Emacs calender
support chinese calender, although its calculation of month is not right.

Another question is how to set an entry of every Friday? I tried

    %%(diary-float t 5 t) Meeting.

It seems the last arg doesn't accept 't'.


Best wishes,
Wei-Wei

Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Carsten Dominik]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:54 AM, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I want to make entries of my mum and dad's birthday by diary- 
> anniversary. The problem
> is their birthday is in Lunar calender (Chinese calender) fashion.  
> Diary has things
> like diary-julian-date, but I didn't find diary-chinese-something.  
> Emacs calender
> support chinese calender, although its calculation of month is not  
> right.

I don't know how to handle chinese dates, sorry.

>
> Another question is how to set an entry of every Friday? I tried
>
>   %%(diary-float t 5 t) Meeting.

Take a look at diary-cyclic, or use

<2009-04-30 Fri +1w>

HTH

- Carsten

>
> It seems the last arg doesn't accept 't'.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Wei-Wei
>
>
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Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

On 2009-04-30 08:54 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I want to make entries of my mum and dad's birthday by diary-anniversary. The problem
> is their birthday is in Lunar calender (Chinese calender) fashion. Diary has things
> like diary-julian-date, but I didn't find diary-chinese-something. Emacs calender
> support chinese calender, although its calculation of month is not right.
>
> Another question is how to set an entry of every Friday? I tried
>
>    %%(diary-float t 5 t) Meeting.
>
> It seems the last arg doesn't accept 't'.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Wei-Wei

I ran into that question and have written a small package here:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3066/match=diary+chinese

Best,
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Re: Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Wei-Wei Guo]

Leo 写道:

Hi Leo,

 >
 > I ran into that question and have written a small package here:
 >
 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3066/match=diary+chinese
 >

Your package is great!

And I notice two bugs. I think it's not bugs of your package.

1. The calculation of Chinese year is right.

For example, if I born in 1982.11 of *solar* calendar and my father born
in 1952.12 of *lunar* calendar. My age is calculated as 27 and my father's
age is calculated as 58, which should be 57. Because my father's birthday
is in the next year of *solar* calender, his age is calculated one year
more.

2. Month of Chinese date is not right.

Due to the conversion of http://www.nongli.com/item3/searchNL.asp, 2009.5.5
is "己丑 戊辰 庚戌", but Emacs Calender gives :

Chinese date: Cycle 78, year 26 (己丑), month 4 (己巳), day 11 (庚戌)

It seems it converts one month late.


Best wishes,
Wei-Wei

Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

On 2009-05-05 14:53 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
> And I notice two bugs. I think it's not bugs of your package.

I assume you mean without loading cal-china-plus, the follow restults
still stand. Could you investigate more and report those bugs to
emacs-devel? The author of calendar.el is actually an expert in this
field, it is good to have him reviewing this.

> 1. The calculation of Chinese year is right.
>
> For example, if I born in 1982.11 of *solar* calendar and my father born
> in 1952.12 of *lunar* calendar. My age is calculated as 27 and my father's
> age is calculated as 58, which should be 57. Because my father's birthday
> is in the next year of *solar* calender, his age is calculated one year
> more.
> 
> 2. Month of Chinese date is not right.
>
> Due to the conversion of http://www.nongli.com/item3/searchNL.asp, 2009.5.5
> is "己丑 戊辰 庚戌", but Emacs Calender gives :
>
> Chinese date: Cycle 78, year 26 (己丑), month 4 (己巳), day 11 (庚戌)
>
> It seems it converts one month late.
>
>
> Best wishes,
> Wei-Wei

Best wishes,
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Re: Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Wei-Wei Guo]

Leo 写道:

Hi Leo,

> I assume you mean without loading cal-china-plus, the follow restults
> still stand. Could you investigate more and report those bugs to
> emacs-devel? The author of calendar.el is actually an expert in this
> field, it is good to have him reviewing this.
> 
>> 1. The calculation of Chinese year is not right.
>>
>> For example, if I born in 1982.11 of *solar* calendar and my father born
>> in 1952.12 of *lunar* calendar. My age is calculated as 27 and my father's
>> age is calculated as 58, which should be 57. Because my father's birthday
>> is in the next year of *solar* calender, his age is calculated one year
>> more.
>>

This bug cannot be reproduced without loading cal-china-plus for it uses the
diary-chinese-anniversary of your package. For example.

%%(diary-anniversary 11 1 1982) I'm %d years old.
%%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) Dad is %d years old.

Could you give me some hints on how to present the bug without your package?


Best wishes,
Wei-Wei

Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

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On 2009-05-06 00:32 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
>>> 1. The calculation of Chinese year is not right.
>>>
>>> For example, if I born in 1982.11 of *solar* calendar and my father born
>>> in 1952.12 of *lunar* calendar. My age is calculated as 27 and my father's
>>> age is calculated as 58, which should be 57. Because my father's birthday
>>> is in the next year of *solar* calender, his age is calculated one year
>>> more.
>>>
>
> This bug cannot be reproduced without loading cal-china-plus for it uses the
> diary-chinese-anniversary of your package. For example.
>
> %%(diary-anniversary 11 1 1982) I'm %d years old.
> %%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) Dad is %d years old.
>
> Could you give me some hints on how to present the bug without your package?

How do you make calendar show the age of your father?

I put %%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) in my diary file and on
2008.12.27 (solar calendar), it says '56 years old', isn't this correct?

There are different ways of counting ages. The diff var in the
diary-chinese-anniversary holds the age value.

Incidentally I found a bug in diary-chinese-anniversary. Could you test
the attached version?


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Thanks,
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Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

On 2009-05-06 02:57 +0100, Leo wrote:

Those Chinese Characters became gibberish so I also posted it here
http://paste.lisp.org/display/79735.

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Re: Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Wei-Wei Guo]

Leo 写道:
> On 2009-05-06 00:32 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
>>>> 1. The calculation of Chinese year is not right.
>>>>
>>>> For example, if I born in 1982.11 of *solar* calendar and my father born
>>>> in 1952.12 of *lunar* calendar. My age is calculated as 27 and my father's
>>>> age is calculated as 58, which should be 57. Because my father's birthday
>>>> is in the next year of *solar* calender, his age is calculated one year
>>>> more.
>>>>
>> This bug cannot be reproduced without loading cal-china-plus for it uses the
>> diary-chinese-anniversary of your package. For example.
>>
>> %%(diary-anniversary 11 1 1982) I'm %d years old.
>> %%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) Dad is %d years old.
>>
>> Could you give me some hints on how to present the bug without your package?
> 
> How do you make calendar show the age of your father?
> 
> I put %%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) in my diary file and on
> 2008.12.27 (solar calendar), it says '56 years old', isn't this correct?
> 

Saturday   27 December 2008
   Birthday:   Dad is 56 years old.

Friday     15 January 2010
   Birthday:   Dad is 58 years old.

There is no '57 years old'.


> There are different ways of counting ages. The diff var in the
> diary-chinese-anniversary holds the age value.
> 
> Incidentally I found a bug in diary-chinese-anniversary. Could you test
> the attached version?
> 

The new version cause .org very slow and shows "Bad sexp at line 36 in ...". What
do you want to test?


Best wishes,
Wei-Wei

Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

On 2009-05-06 06:27 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
[...]
>> How do you make calendar show the age of your father?
>>
>> I put %%(diary-chinese-anniversary 12 1 1952) in my diary file and on
>> 2008.12.27 (solar calendar), it says '56 years old', isn't this correct?
>>
>
> Saturday   27 December 2008
>   Birthday:   Dad is 56 years old.
>
> Friday     15 January 2010
>   Birthday:   Dad is 58 years old.
>
> There is no '57 years old'.

That's the bug I spotted. Should be fixed now.


>> There are different ways of counting ages. The diff var in the
>> diary-chinese-anniversary holds the age value.
>>
>> Incidentally I found a bug in diary-chinese-anniversary. Could you test
>> the attached version?
>>
>
> The new version cause .org very slow and shows "Bad sexp at line 36 in ...". What
> do you want to test?

Sorry there was a typo. Fixed in http://paste.lisp.org/display/79755.

>
>
> Best wishes,
> Wei-Wei


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Re: Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Wei-Wei Guo]

Leo 写道:

Hi Leo,


>>> There are different ways of counting ages. The diff var in the
>>> diary-chinese-anniversary holds the age value.
>>>
>>> Incidentally I found a bug in diary-chinese-anniversary. Could you test
>>> the attached version?
>>>
>> The new version cause .org very slow and shows "Bad sexp at line 36 in ...". What
>> do you want to test?
> 
> Sorry there was a typo. Fixed in http://paste.lisp.org/display/79755.
> 

The age is calculated right now and the package works fine now. Thanks a lot!


Best wishes,
Wei-Wei

Re: How to set a entry with Chinese calender?

[Leo]

On 2009-05-06 11:40 +0100, Wei-Wei Guo wrote:
> The age is calculated right now and the package works fine now. Thanks
> a lot!

Nice. I posted it to emacs-sources.
See http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.sources/3252

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