ChineseLunisolarCalendar
Class
Definition
Represents time in divisions, such as months, days, and years. Years are calculated using the Chinese calendar, while days and months are calculated using the lunisolar calendar.
public class ChineseLunisolarCalendar : System.Globalization.EastAsianLunisolarCalendar
- Inheritance
Inherited Members
System.Globalization.Calendar
System.Globalization.EastAsianLunisolarCalendar
System.Object
Remarks
The ChineseLunisolarCalendar class is derived from the EastAsianLunisolarCalendar class, which represents the lunisolar calendar. The EastAsianLunisolarCalendar class supports the sexagenary year cycle (which repeats every 60 years) in addition to solar years and lunar months. Each solar year in the calendar is associated with a Sexagenary Year, a Celestial Stem, and a Terrestrial Branch, and these calendars can have leap months after any month of the year. The ChineseLunisolarCalendar class calculates years based on solar calculations, and months and days based on lunar calculations.
Note
For information about using the ChineseLunisolarCalendar class and the other calendar classes in the .NET Framework, see Working with Calendars.
A leap month can occur after any month in a year. For example, the GetMonth method returns a number between 1 and 13 that indicates the month associated with a specified date. If there is a leap month between the eighth and ninth months of the year, the GetMonth method returns 8 for the eighth month, 9 for the leap eighth month, and 10 for the ninth month.
Currently, the ChineseLunisolarCalendar is not used by any of the cultures supported by the CultureInfo class. Therefore, this class can be used only to calculate dates in the Chinese lunisolar calendar.
Each CultureInfo object supports a set of calendars. The Calendar property returns the default calendar for the culture, and the OptionalCalendars property returns an array containing all the calendars supported by the culture. To change the calendar used by a CultureInfo, the application should set the Calendar property of CultureInfo.DateTimeFormat to a new Calendar.
Constructors
| ChineseLunisolarCalendar() |
Initializes a new instance of the ChineseLunisolarCalendar class. |
Fields
| ChineseEra |
Specifies the era that corresponds to the current ChineseLunisolarCalendar object. |
Properties
| DaysInYearBeforeMinSupportedYear |
Gets the number of days in the year that precedes the year that is specified by the MinSupportedDateTime property. |
| Eras |
Gets the eras that correspond to the range of dates and times supported by the current ChineseLunisolarCalendar object. |
| MaxSupportedDateTime |
Gets the maximum date and time supported by the ChineseLunisolarCalendar class. |
| MinSupportedDateTime |
Gets the minimum date and time supported by the ChineseLunisolarCalendar class. |
Methods
| GetEra(DateTime) |
Retrieves the era that corresponds to the specified DateTime type. |