This project will produce a program that can handle both solar and lunar calendars, and can accurately predict the dates for various religious and secular holidays. It would be best if the various dates could be defined in some general way, rather than each being calculated by a separate routine, so that other events can be added as we become aware of them.
REFERENCES:
Calendrical Calculations,
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward M. Reingold,
Software-Practice and Experience, V20 #9 (Sept. 1990) pp.899-928.
Calendrical Calculations, Part II: Three Historical Calendars,
E. M. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. M. Clamen
Software-Practice and Experience, V23 #4 (April 1993) pp.383-404.
Book
by Dershowitz and Reingold
Galaxy's
and
Yahoo's
lists of calendar information
Chinese &
lunar calendar information
Standard C Date/Time Library (SCDTL) from
RMS
EQUIPMENT: Sun, using software available in the department