Set up yearly reminders with Chinese lunar calendar
July 18, 2011 10:18 AM Subscribe
My parents mark their birthdays using the Chinese lunar calendar. How can I send myself an email reminding me of this date every year?
So far I've usually reminded myself about a month before I think it ought to be and looked it up, but I was wondering if there was a way to do something once and have the reminders set up for perpetuity.
There is an alternate calendar in Google Calendar, but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. It just overlays the lunar calendar over the regular calendar (so I can see how a given date is expressed in both calendars) but no way to add annually repeating dates with the Chinese calendar.
So far I've usually reminded myself about a month before I think it ought to be and looked it up, but I was wondering if there was a way to do something once and have the reminders set up for perpetuity.
There is an alternate calendar in Google Calendar, but it doesn't seem to be what I'm looking for. It just overlays the lunar calendar over the regular calendar (so I can see how a given date is expressed in both calendars) but no way to add annually repeating dates with the Chinese calendar.
Response by poster: Ha, that'd be one way to do it. It's like that (apocryphal) story about NASA pouring billions into making a pen that can write in space while the Soviets decide to use a pencil.
posted by Busoni at 10:40 AM on July 18, 2011
posted by Busoni at 10:40 AM on July 18, 2011
From Projects (and the Podcast), Cosmos is an iPhone app that is capable of setting reminders anywhere between a second from now and well, just about anytime after that.
posted by carsonb at 11:01 AM on July 18, 2011
posted by carsonb at 11:01 AM on July 18, 2011
Is there a definitive online lunar calendar to Gregorian calendar converter?
posted by artlung at 11:53 AM on July 18, 2011
posted by artlung at 11:53 AM on July 18, 2011
Does the Chinese Lunar calendar differ from the Jewish Lunar calendar? If they're the same, you can use a Yahrzeit Calendar Calculator (here's one). Just put your parents' "Western" birth dates under the "civil calendar date" and it'll forecast when that date falls on the lunar calendar for years to come.
posted by litnerd at 12:01 PM on July 18, 2011
posted by litnerd at 12:01 PM on July 18, 2011
...because if there is it seems simple enough to get those recurring dates and then enter them as a custom calendar in GCal.
posted by artlung at 12:02 PM on July 18, 2011
posted by artlung at 12:02 PM on July 18, 2011
Google Calendar supports using the Chinese calendar. Perhaps you can create a calendar under "My Calendars" that is using the Chinese calendar, create a yearly event, and then switch your settings back to Western? It might work.
posted by Xoder at 1:28 PM on July 18, 2011
posted by Xoder at 1:28 PM on July 18, 2011
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posted by Tarumba at 10:24 AM on July 18, 2011