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41 .Nd Calendar arithmetic for the Christian era
47 .Fn easterg "int year" "struct date *dt"
49 .Fn easterog "int year" "struct date *dt"
51 .Fn easteroj "int year" "struct date *dt"
53 .Fn gdate "int nd" "struct date *dt"
55 .Fn jdate "int nd" "struct date *dt"
57 .Fn ndaysg "struct date *dt"
59 .Fn ndaysj "struct date *dt"
61 .Fn week "int nd" "int *year"
65 These functions provide calendar arithmetic for a large range of years,
66 starting at March 1st, year zero (i. e. 1 B.C.) and ending way beyond
69 Programs should be linked with
77 store the date of Easter Sunday into the structure pointed at by
79 and return a pointer to this structure.
82 assumes Gregorian Calendar (adopted by most western churches after 1582) and
87 compute the date of Easter Sunday according to the orthodox rules
88 (Western churches before 1582, Greek and Russian Orthodox Church
90 The result returned by
92 is the date in Gregorian Calendar, whereas
94 returns the date in Julian Calendar.
102 provide conversions between the common "year, month, day" notation
103 of a date and the "number of days" representation, which is better suited
105 The days are numbered from March 1st year 1 B.C., starting
106 with zero, so the number of a day gives the number of days since March 1st,
107 year 1 B.C. The conversions work for nonnegative day numbers only.
114 store the date corresponding to the day number
116 into the structure pointed at by
118 and return a pointer to this structure.
125 return the day number of the date pointed at by
133 assume Gregorian Calendar after October 4, 1582 and Julian Calendar before,
138 assume Julian Calendar throughout.
140 The two calendars differ by the definition of the leap year.
142 Julian Calendar says every year that is a multiple of four is a
144 The Gregorian Calendar excludes years that are multiples of
145 100 and not multiples of 400.
146 This means the years 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100 are not leap years
149 The new rules were inaugurated on October 4, 1582 by deleting ten
150 days following this date.
151 Most catholic countries adopted the new
152 calendar by the end of the 16th century, whereas others stayed with
153 the Julian Calendar until the 20th century.
154 The United Kingdom and
155 their colonies switched on September 2, 1752. They already had to
160 returns the number of the week which contains the day numbered
164 is set with the year that contains (the greater part of) the week.
165 The weeks are numbered per year starting with week 1, which is the
166 first week in a year that includes more than three days of the year.
167 Weeks start on Monday.
168 This function is defined for Gregorian Calendar only.
172 returns the weekday (Mo = 0 .. Su = 6) of the day numbered
179 It contains these fields:
180 .Bd -literal -offset indent
181 int y; /\(** year (0000 - ????) \(**/
182 int m; /\(** month (1 - 12) \(**/
183 int d; /\(** day of month (1 - 31) \(**/
186 The year zero is written as "1 B.C." by historians and "0" by astronomers
192 The week number conforms to ISO 8601: 1988.
196 library first appeared in
199 This manual page and the library was written by
200 .An Wolfgang Helbig Aq helbig@FreeBSD.org .
202 The library was coded with great care so there are no bugs left.