ChineseCalendar

public class ChineseCalendar
extends Calendar

java.lang.Object
   ↳ android.icu.util.Calendar
     ↳ android.icu.util.ChineseCalendar


ChineseCalendar is a concrete subclass of Calendar that implements a traditional Chinese calendar. The traditional Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar: Each month starts on a new moon, and the months are numbered according to solar events, specifically, to guarantee that month 11 always contains the winter solstice. In order to accomplish this, leap months are inserted in certain years. Leap months are numbered the same as the month they follow. The decision of which month is a leap month depends on the relative movements of the sun and moon.

All astronomical computations are performed with respect to a time zone of GMT+8:00 and a longitude of 120 degrees east. Although some calendars implement a historically more accurate convention of using Beijing's local longitude (116 degrees 25 minutes east) and time zone (GMT+7:45:40) for dates before 1929, we do not implement this here.

Years are counted in two different ways in the Chinese calendar. The first method is by sequential numbering from the 61st year of the reign of Huang Di, 2637 BCE, which is designated year 1 on the Chinese calendar. The second method uses 60-year cycles from the same starting point, which is designated year 1 of cycle 1. In this class, the EXTENDED_YEAR field contains the sequential year count. The ERA field contains the cycle number, and the YEAR field contains the year of the cycle, a value between 1 and 60.

There is some variation in what is considered the starting point of the calendar, with some sources starting in the first year of the reign of Huang Di, rather than the 61st. This gives continuous year numbers 60 years greater and cycle numbers one greater than what this class implements.

Because ChineseCalendar defines an additional field and redefines the way the ERA field is used, it requires a new format class, ChineseDateFormat. As always, use the methods DateFormat.getXxxInstance(Calendar cal,...) to obtain a formatter for this calendar.

References:

  • Dershowitz and Reingold, Calendrical Calculations, Cambridge University Press, 1997
  • The Calendar FAQ

This class should not be subclassed.

ChineseCalendar usually should be instantiated using Calendar.getInstance(ULocale) passing in a ULocale with the tag "@calendar=chinese".

See also:

Summary

Inherited constants

Inherited fields

Public constructors

ChineseCalendar()

Construct a ChineseCalendar with the default time zone and locale.

ChineseCalendar(Date date)

Construct a ChineseCalendar with the give date set in the default time zone with the default locale.

ChineseCalendar(int year, int month, int isLeapMonth, int date)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

ChineseCalendar(int year, int month, int isLeapMonth, int date, int hour, int minute, int second)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date and time set for the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

ChineseCalendar(int era, int year, int month, int isLeapMonth, int date)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

ChineseCalendar(int era, int year, int month, int isLeapMonth, int date, int hour, int minute, int second)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date and time set for the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

ChineseCalendar(Locale aLocale)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.

ChineseCalendar(TimeZone zone)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

ChineseCalendar(TimeZone zone, Locale aLocale)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the given locale.

ChineseCalendar(ULocale locale)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.

ChineseCalendar(TimeZone zone, ULocale locale)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time with the given time zone with the given locale.

Public methods

void add(int field, int amount)

Override Calendar to handle leap months properly.

String getType()

[icu] Returns the calendar type name string for this Calendar object.

void roll(int field, int amount)

Override Calendar to handle leap months properly.

Protected methods

int[][][] getFieldResolutionTable()

Override Calendar to add IS_LEAP_MONTH to the field resolution table.

void handleComputeFields(int julianDay)

Override Calendar to compute several fields specific to the Chinese calendar system.

int handleComputeMonthStart(int eyear, int month, boolean useMonth)

Return the Julian day number of day before the first day of the given month in the given extended year.

DateFormat handleGetDateFormat(String pattern, String override, ULocale locale)

int handleGetExtendedYear()

Implement abstract Calendar method to return the extended year defined by the current fields.

int handleGetLimit(int field, int limitType)

Override Calendar to return the limit value for the given field.

int handleGetMonthLength(int extendedYear, int month)

Override Calendar method to return the number of days in the given extended year and month.

Inherited methods

Public constructors

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar ()

Construct a ChineseCalendar with the default time zone and locale.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (Date date)

Construct a ChineseCalendar with the give date set in the default time zone with the default locale.

Parameters
date Date: The date to which the new calendar is set.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (int year, 
                int month, 
                int isLeapMonth, 
                int date)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

Parameters
year int: The value used to set the calendar's YEAR time field.

month int: The value used to set the calendar's MONTH time field. The value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.

isLeapMonth int: The value used to set the Chinese calendar's Calendar.IS_LEAP_MONTH time field.

date int: The value used to set the calendar's DATE time field.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (int year, 
                int month, 
                int isLeapMonth, 
                int date, 
                int hour, 
                int minute, 
                int second)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date and time set for the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

Parameters
year int: the value used to set the YEAR time field in the calendar.

month int: the value used to set the MONTH time field in the calendar. Note that the month value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.

isLeapMonth int: the value used to set the Calendar.IS_LEAP_MONTH time field in the calendar.

date int: the value used to set the DATE time field in the calendar.

hour int: the value used to set the HOUR_OF_DAY time field in the calendar.

minute int: the value used to set the MINUTE time field in the calendar.

second int: the value used to set the SECOND time field in the calendar.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (int era, 
                int year, 
                int month, 
                int isLeapMonth, 
                int date)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date set in the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

Parameters
era int: The value used to set the calendar's ERA time field.

year int: The value used to set the calendar's YEAR time field.

month int: The value used to set the calendar's MONTH time field. The value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.

isLeapMonth int: The value used to set the Chinese calendar's Calendar.IS_LEAP_MONTH time field.

date int: The value used to set the calendar's DATE time field.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (int era, 
                int year, 
                int month, 
                int isLeapMonth, 
                int date, 
                int hour, 
                int minute, 
                int second)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar with the given date and time set for the default time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

Parameters
era int: the value used to set the calendar's ERA time field.

year int: the value used to set the YEAR time field in the calendar.

month int: the value used to set the MONTH time field in the calendar. Note that the month value is 0-based. e.g., 0 for January.

isLeapMonth int: the value used to set the Calendar.IS_LEAP_MONTH time field in the calendar.

date int: the value used to set the DATE time field in the calendar.

hour int: the value used to set the HOUR_OF_DAY time field in the calendar.

minute int: the value used to set the MINUTE time field in the calendar.

second int: the value used to set the SECOND time field in the calendar.

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (Locale aLocale)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.

Parameters
aLocale Locale: The given locale

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (TimeZone zone)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the default FORMAT locale.

Parameters
zone TimeZone: the given time zone

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (TimeZone zone, 
                Locale aLocale)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the given time zone with the given locale.

Parameters
zone TimeZone: the given time zone

aLocale Locale: the given locale

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (ULocale locale)

Constructs a ChineseCalendar based on the current time in the default time zone with the given locale.

Parameters
locale ULocale: the given ulocale

ChineseCalendar

Added in API level 24
public ChineseCalendar (TimeZone zone, 
                ULocale locale)

Construct a ChineseCalendar based on the current time with the given time zone with the given locale.

Parameters
zone TimeZone: the given time zone

locale ULocale: the given ulocale

Public methods

add

Added in API level 24
public void add (int field, 
                int amount)

Override Calendar to handle leap months properly.

Parameters
field int: the time field.

amount int: the amount to add to the field.

getType

Added in API level 24
public String getType ()

[icu] Returns the calendar type name string for this Calendar object. The returned string is the legacy ICU calendar attribute value, for example, "gregorian" or "japanese".

See type="old type name" for the calendar attribute of locale IDs at http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr35/#Key_Type_Definitions

Returns
String legacy calendar type name string

roll

Added in API level 24
public void roll (int field, 
                int amount)

Override Calendar to handle leap months properly.

Parameters
field int: the calendar field to roll.

amount int: the amount by which the field should be rolled.

Protected methods

getFieldResolutionTable

Added in API level 24
protected int[][][] getFieldResolutionTable ()

Override Calendar to add IS_LEAP_MONTH to the field resolution table.

Returns
int[][][]

handleComputeFields

Added in API level 24
protected void handleComputeFields (int julianDay)

Override Calendar to compute several fields specific to the Chinese calendar system. These are:

  • ERA
  • YEAR
  • MONTH
  • DAY_OF_MONTH
  • DAY_OF_YEAR
  • EXTENDED_YEAR
The DAY_OF_WEEK and DOW_LOCAL fields are already set when this method is called. The getGregorianXxx() methods return Gregorian calendar equivalents for the given Julian day.

Compute the ChineseCalendar-specific field IS_LEAP_MONTH.

Parameters
julianDay int

handleComputeMonthStart

Added in API level 24
protected int handleComputeMonthStart (int eyear, 
                int month, 
                boolean useMonth)

Return the Julian day number of day before the first day of the given month in the given extended year.

Note: This method reads the IS_LEAP_MONTH field to determine whether the given month is a leap month.

Parameters
eyear int: the extended year

month int: the zero-based month. The month is also determined by reading the IS_LEAP_MONTH field.

useMonth boolean: if false, compute the day before the first day of the given year, otherwise, compute the day before the first day of the given month

Returns
int the Julian day number of the day before the first day of the given month and year

handleGetDateFormat

Added in API level 24
protected DateFormat handleGetDateFormat (String pattern, 
                String override, 
                ULocale locale)

Parameters
pattern String

override String

locale ULocale

Returns
DateFormat

handleGetExtendedYear

Added in API level 24
protected int handleGetExtendedYear ()

Implement abstract Calendar method to return the extended year defined by the current fields. This will use either the ERA and YEAR field as the cycle and year-of-cycle, or the EXTENDED_YEAR field as the continuous year count, depending on which is newer.

Returns
int the extended year

handleGetLimit

Added in API level 24
protected int handleGetLimit (int field, 
                int limitType)

Override Calendar to return the limit value for the given field.

Parameters
field int: one of the above field numbers

limitType int: one of MINIMUM, GREATEST_MINIMUM, LEAST_MAXIMUM, or MAXIMUM

Returns
int

handleGetMonthLength

Added in API level 24
protected int handleGetMonthLength (int extendedYear, 
                int month)

Override Calendar method to return the number of days in the given extended year and month.

Note: This method also reads the IS_LEAP_MONTH field to determine whether or not the given month is a leap month.

Parameters
extendedYear int

month int

Returns
int