Re: Getting an era's beginning date
Re: Getting an era's beginning date
- Subject: Re: Getting an era's beginning date
- From: 慧 松本 <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:39:27 +0900
Hi, Nick
On 2008/01/29, at 8:49, Nick Zitzmann wrote:
For days, weeks, etc. this is trivial, since they have a universal
start time. But an era can begin and end at any point in time.
These points in time are trivial to figure out on the Gregorian
calendar (the AD era began on January 1, 1), but the Japanese
calendar is a totally different story (the Heisei era began on
January 7, 1989 for example).
I am a Japanese.
"January 7, 1989" is the date that our current emperor was
enthroned. Each emperor had his own eras. Some emperors changed their
eras when a disaster or evil thing had happened.
As our imperial family has continued for more than 2000 years, there
are hundreds of eras in Japanese calendar.
I don't think it is realistic for NSCalendar to have Japanese era
database.
As our emperor's birthday is a national holiday, I know the date.
But I don't remember the date when Heisei era began. :-)
I am rather interested in Maya calendar that defines the date of the
end of the world. :-)
Satoshi
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Satoshi Matsumoto <email@hidden>
816-5 Odake, Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan 256-0802
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