PyCalCal is a Python library that makes it easy:
- to convert dates from/to 31 different calendars
- to calculate special dates/times such as holidays, astronomical events (equinoxes, solstices ...), sunrise/sunset
- to try it online (experimental !!)
PyCalCal is an implementation in Python of CALENDRICA 3.0, which is the Common Lisp implementation of the functions described in the book
Nachum Dershowitz, Edward M. Reingold "Calendrical Calculations"
Cambridge University Press; 3rd edition (December 10, 2007)
Paperback; ISBN-13: 9780521702386
E. M. Reingold and N. Dershowitz,
3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Some of the algorithms are from:
Jean Meeus "Astronomical Algorithms"
Willmann-Bell, Inc.; 2nd edition (1998 with corrections as of June 15, 2005);
ISBN: 0-943396-61-1
Enrico Spinielli, implemented PyCalCal for fun and to further glory in the beauty of the work of the authors of the book. Having said so, PyCalCal code is pretty well tested and usable.
skilchen made a complete translation of PyCalCal from Python to Nim, as an excercise to learn some Nim ... The translation is surprisingly easy, but calendrica-3.0 is a big thing (more then 500 functions), so it needed quite some work. For me nimcalcal seems to work both on the c and on the js backend. skilchen wants to thank Enrico Spinielli for making PyCalCal and to express the great admiration he has for the masters of Calendars Prof.s Reingold and Dershowitz. This readme is evidently the one from Enrico Spinielli. So the "I" in the following text always refers to Mr. Spinielli.
See 'STATUS' file for further details.
I want to thank:
- Prof.s Reingold and Dershowitz for their prompt replies to my (sometimes silly, other times pertinent) questions
- my family, Gilda and the kids, for the good they bring to my life (and the time they let me spend with all this)
- my parents and parents-in-law for their past and continuous support
CALENDRICAL 3.0 is written and copyrighted by E. M. Reingold and N. Dershowitz as described in file 'COPYRIGHT_DERSHOWITZ_REINGOLD'
Prof. Reingold mantains a companion site for the book.
The resource page of the book at Cambridge University Press provides a link to a zipped version of 'calendrica-3.0.cl' which I included unzipped in PyCalCal project repo in order to be able to reference the relevant snippets of the original implementation.
Files 'dates[1-5].tex', containing test data, have been kindly provided to me by Prof. Reingold.