JapaneseLunisolarCalendar Class

Definition

Represents time in divisions, such as months, days, and years. Years are calculated as for the Japanese calendar, while days and months are calculated using the lunisolar calendar.

public class JapaneseLunisolarCalendar : System.Globalization.EastAsianLunisolarCalendar
Inheritance
JapaneseLunisolarCalendar

Inherited Members

System.Globalization.Calendar

System.Globalization.EastAsianLunisolarCalendar

System.Object

Remarks

The JapaneseLunisolarCalendar 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.

Note

For information about using the JapaneseLunisolarCalendar class and the other calendar classes in the .NET Framework, see Working with Calendars.

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 JapaneseLunisolarCalendar 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 Japanese 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

JapaneseLunisolarCalendar()

Initializes a new instance of the JapaneseLunisolarCalendar class.

Fields

JapaneseEra

Specifies the current era.

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 are relevant to the JapaneseLunisolarCalendar object.

MaxSupportedDateTime

Gets the maximum date and time supported by the JapaneseLunisolarCalendar class.

MinSupportedDateTime

Gets the minimum date and time supported by the JapaneseLunisolarCalendar class.

Methods

GetEra(DateTime)

Retrieves the era that corresponds to the specified DateTime.