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Why don't you reply my email?
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Hotmail accounts will not get
any reply
- why?
click
here!
In addition, majority of Hotmails are spam mails. Lazy questions like - can you please tell me when
Chinese New Year will fall on year XXXX? - You are suppose to download and
use the program. I am not an online encyclopedia.
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| Q |
What is LunarCal? |
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LunarCal is a 160-years perpetual Chinese Calendar
program. It is "Charityware" and is available for free download. This program will run on Win9x / ME / NT
/ XP based computers. You download the program and run it on your PC and it will tell
you the dates of Chinese New Years and major Chinese festivals for years 1900
thru 2060. It may run on some Linux computers - see
"Wine" below.
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| Q |
I cannot execute the program
after downloading it. |
| A |
Check the MD5 checksum as provided on the
download page. If it does not agree then you have to download again -
maybe using a different FTP program or use another PC. The programs have
been downloaded by many using a variety of FTP programs and browsers (IE
& Netscape, etc) and have experienced no problems. |
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| Q |
What is MD5? |
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MD5 is a
message digest algorithm. For more info visit:-
http://www.rsasecurity.com/
or search Google. |
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| Q |
Can you send me the source code? |
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Don't ask. |
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| Q |
Can you tell me when Chinese New Year falls on the year
XXXX? |
| A |
Download and execute the LunarCal program.
Right click on mouse to pop up menu. Then select your required date. |
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| Q |
How can I obtain information for years
prior to 1900 and years beyond 2060? |
| A |
LunarCal currently does not cover these years. The
astronomical algorithms implemented works best for years 1900-2060. The
JDE2000 epoch formulae are used and will not be accurate for years far
beyond 2060. I expect to see some minor corrections for various formulae
as time goes by. This is especially so in the Delta Time calculations. Also, from the early days of the Chinese calendar up to about 1900, there
were a number of changes to the calendar rules by the Chinese authorities thus
making it difficult to enumerate such a calendar.
Moreover, majority of software (including OS) are unable to handle
years beyond 2030 and/or 2059 due to limitations in their design of the
datetime structure. This is especially so in MS Visual C.
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| Q |
Where can I get a Chinese Calendar for year
XXXX? |
| A |
Go to the Calendar tab and follow the subsidiary tabs and
you should be able to download the full printable lunar calendar for the current
year. You may wish to search
www.google.com |
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| Q |
Can you tell me the meaning of ???
Chinese characters on LunarCal? |
| A |
This site is about Chinese calendar and only LunarCal's
main screen is in Chinese, other screens are in English. On the web pages
you can find pages containing English translation of the various Chinese
characters used. The LunarCal program also has screens of Chinese
characters with the English translations. Please read the online manual
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| Q |
How can I query when Chinese New Year
falls on a particular year on your web site? |
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At present, this is NOT an interactive web site for you to query Chinese New Years
online. There are many other such websites available. |
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Q |
How can I find the
equivalent Gregorian calendar date corresponding to a Chinese Date (vice
versa)? |
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At present there is no straight forward
technique. The only method possible in current version is to set the
LunarCal datetime:- (1) To Convert from Gregorian
date to Chinese date:
Enter the required date in the "Set DateTime", "Set Local DateTime" dialog
and then "Display", "Chinese Lunar Calendar". Then look at the Gregorian
date entry: eg: Gregorian date Feb 25, 1965 = Chinese date 1st lunar
month day 24.
(2) To Convert from Chinese date to Gregorian date:
Use above technique to enter the required date - using the Chinese date as a
1st trial for the Gregorian date. Eg: Chinese date 12th day of the 4th lunar
month 1982. First enter a Gregorian trial date as day=12, month=4, year=1982. The
Chinese Lunar Calendar displays lunar month 3 which is incorrect. Just hit [DnArrow]
or [UpArrow] key to display the correct lunar month. In this case its lunar
month 4, then look at the 12th day (Chinese) giving a
Gregorian date of May 5, 1982.
The technique works since in majority of cases the
Chinese date is approximately 1 month (at most 2 months) off the Gregorian
date.
I shall put this on the "to do" list for later
version. |
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| Q |
Will you make available a PDA version? |
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I have decided not to port LunarCal
to the PDA platform. |
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| Q |
I have "Wine" but I
cannot run LunarCal? |
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You very are lucky! There are
lots of people including myself, who have not been able to get a proper
install of Wine at all. The last version that I check out - wine-20020605.tar is
buggy. The HowTo manual is out of date and the program does
things differently. There may be a later release by now. I have already given up on Wine. I suggest you get assistance from the wine
newsgroup. Check out
www.winehq.org |
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| Q |
Can you tell me where I can where I
can get more information on XXXXXX? |
| A |
Have you tried the popular search engines?
www.google.com
www.yahoo.com
www.ilor.com
www.askjeeves.com
www.alltheweb.com
http://vivisimo.com/ |
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| Q |
Can you tell me more about the year of
the Horse (or any other animal year)? (Horoscope) |
| A |
Unfortunately no. I am not a
fortune teller. Please visit some fortune telling web sites.
For those interested, the book "The Handbook of Chinese
Horoscopes" by Theodora Lau, ISBN 0 00 638875 2, Harper Collins
Publishers, London, may be consulted. This is a great book with detailed
descriptions (including personality traits) of all 12 animal signs.
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