[Javaweb-submit] GPLed calendar package available

[H . Väisänen]

Homepage: http://joyds1.joensuu.fi/calendar/index.html
Download: http://joyds1.joensuu.fi/calendar/calendar-0.1.tar.gz
License:  GNU General Public License


This package implements many calendars.


In addition to the Gregorian calendar, it has

     Coptic calendar
     Ethiopic calendar
     French revolutionary calendar
     Hebrew calendar
     Islamic calendar
     Julian calendar
     Mayan calendar
     Persian calendar


Different countries changed from Julian to Gregorian calendar in
different times. This package has calendars for the following
countries (all of them do not exist any more as independend countries)

Calendar          Countries
BohemianMoravian  Bohemia and Moravia
British           Great Britain and Dominions
Bulgarian         Bulgaria
Danish            Denmark, Norway and many German Protestant states
Finnish           Finland and Sweden
Hungarian         Hungary
Luxemburgian      Luxemburg
Prussian          Prussia
Romanian          Romania
Russian           Russia, Estonia (was part of Russia when calendar changed)
SwissProtestant   Swiss Protestant cantons


The classes do not implement the java.util.Calendar interface but they
have functions to convert to and from java.util.GregorianCalendar.

Part of the code is translated into Java from GNU Emacs's calendar
package.

Another source has been The Calendar FAQ
http://www.tondering.dk/claus/cal/calendar26.html


The package also has date formatting and parsing routines analogous to
java.text.DateFormat and java.text.SimpleDateFormat.


Terms of Use
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This package is free software distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, see http//www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.