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202 lines
5.5 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1997 Wolfgang Helbig
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd November 29, 1997
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.Dt CALENDAR 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm easterg ,
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.Nm easterog ,
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.Nm easteroj ,
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.Nm gdate ,
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.Nm jdate ,
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.Nm ndaysg ,
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.Nm ndaysj ,
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.Nm week ,
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.Nm weekday
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.Nd Calendar arithmetic for the Christian era
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libcalendar
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In calendar.h
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.Ft struct date *
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.Fn easterg "int year" "struct date *dt"
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.Ft struct date *
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.Fn easterog "int year" "struct date *dt"
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.Ft struct date *
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.Fn easteroj "int year" "struct date *dt"
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.Ft struct date *
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.Fn gdate "int nd" "struct date *dt"
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.Ft struct date *
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.Fn jdate "int nd" "struct date *dt"
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.Ft int
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.Fn ndaysg "struct date *dt"
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.Ft int
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.Fn ndaysj "struct date *dt"
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.Ft int
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.Fn week "int nd" "int *year"
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.Ft int
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.Fn weekday "int nd"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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These functions provide calendar arithmetic for a large range of years,
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starting at March 1st, year zero (i. e. 1 B.C.) and ending way beyond
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year 100000.
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.Pp
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Programs should be linked with
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.Fl lcalendar .
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.Pp
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The functions
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.Fn easterg ,
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.Fn easterog
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and
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.Fn easteroj
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store the date of Easter Sunday into the structure pointed at by
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.Fa dt
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and return a pointer to this structure.
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The function
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.Fn easterg
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assumes Gregorian Calendar (adopted by most western churches after 1582) and
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the functions
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.Fn easterog
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and
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.Fn easteroj
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compute the date of Easter Sunday according to the orthodox rules
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(Western churches before 1582, Greek and Russian Orthodox Church
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until today).
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The result returned by
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.Fn easterog
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is the date in Gregorian Calendar, whereas
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.Fn easteroj
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returns the date in Julian Calendar.
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.Pp
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The functions
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.Fn gdate ,
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.Fn jdate ,
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.Fn ndaysg
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and
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.Fn ndaysj
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provide conversions between the common "year, month, day" notation
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of a date and the "number of days" representation, which is better suited
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for calculations.
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The days are numbered from March 1st year 1 B.C., starting
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with zero, so the number of a day gives the number of days since March 1st,
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year 1 B.C. The conversions work for nonnegative day numbers only.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn gdate
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and
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.Fn jdate
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functions
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store the date corresponding to the day number
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.Fa nd
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into the structure pointed at by
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.Fa dt
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and return a pointer to this structure.
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn ndaysg
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and
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.Fn ndaysj
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functions
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return the day number of the date pointed at by
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.Fa dt .
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.Pp
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The
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.Fn gdate
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and
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.Fn ndaysg
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functions
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assume Gregorian Calendar after October 4, 1582 and Julian Calendar before,
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whereas
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.Fn jdate
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and
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.Fn ndaysj
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assume Julian Calendar throughout.
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.Pp
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The two calendars differ by the definition of the leap year.
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The
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Julian Calendar says every year that is a multiple of four is a
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leap year.
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The Gregorian Calendar excludes years that are multiples of
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100 and not multiples of 400.
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This means the years 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100 are not leap years
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and the year 2000 is
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a leap year.
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The new rules were inaugurated on October 4, 1582 by deleting ten
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days following this date.
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Most catholic countries adopted the new
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calendar by the end of the 16th century, whereas others stayed with
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the Julian Calendar until the 20th century.
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The United Kingdom and
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their colonies switched on September 2, 1752. They already had to
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delete 11 days.
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn week
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returns the number of the week which contains the day numbered
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.Fa nd .
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The argument
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.Fa *year
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is set with the year that contains (the greater part of) the week.
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The weeks are numbered per year starting with week 1, which is the
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first week in a year that includes more than three days of the year.
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Weeks start on Monday.
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This function is defined for Gregorian Calendar only.
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.Pp
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The function
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.Fn weekday
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returns the weekday (Mo = 0 .. Su = 6) of the day numbered
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.Fa nd .
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.Pp
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The structure
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.Fa date
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is defined in
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.In calendar.h .
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It contains these fields:
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.Bd -literal -offset indent
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int y; /\(** year (0000 - ????) \(**/
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int m; /\(** month (1 - 12) \(**/
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int d; /\(** day of month (1 - 31) \(**/
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.Ed
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.Pp
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The year zero is written as "1 B.C." by historians and "0" by astronomers
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and in this library.
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ncal 1 ,
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.Xr strftime 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The week number conforms to ISO 8601: 1988.
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm calendar
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library first appeared in
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.Fx 3.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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This manual page and the library was written by
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.An Wolfgang Helbig Aq helbig@FreeBSD.org .
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.Sh BUGS
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The library was coded with great care so there are no bugs left.
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