Chinese/Gregorian calendar conversion?
September 23, 2007 7:35 PM   Subscribe

Looking for a calendar converter for the Chinese calendar to the Gregorian (Western) calendar and vice versa, which goes back further than 1901.

The only one I've found is IN Chinese, which I can't read. Hopefully the converter would let me go back at least as far as year 0 AD.

Alternatively I could use a formula for figuring it out myself, if anyone can find that. Thanks in advance!
posted by dinty_moore to Society & Culture (3 answers total)
 
Hmm, there's this whichis a bit quirky but seems like it can do what you need. It gives he stem and branch parts of the sixty-year cycle too, it appears.
There's been the occasional reform and re-adjustment down the years, and year count was most familiar in a reign name format iirc, so depending on your purpose that might be something to bear in mind.
posted by Abiezer at 8:15 PM on September 23, 2007


Check out this Java applet.
posted by Ironwolf at 12:18 AM on September 24, 2007


The calendar built into GNU Emacs does calendar conversion between a ton of different formats, including Chinese. Just to test it, I converted July 4, 1776 into a Chinese date and got "Cycle 74, year 33 (Bing-Shen), month 5 (Jia-Wu), day 19 (Ji-Chou)". Of course, I have no idea whether that's correct.
posted by letourneau at 10:49 AM on September 24, 2007


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