CCalendar Converter is a utility for conversion between often used calendars. In this version (1.10), it supports the conversion between Gregorian, Julian, Sinic (a.k.a. Chinese, as PRC insists), ISO, Islamic, and Hebrew calendars. Many festivals are also supported so that you can easily find when is Easter, Orthodox Easter, Chinese New Year, Hanukkah, and Ramaden. You can also find the sunrise/sunset time and the moon phase in the city where you live.
V1.1 added a calendar window so that you can have an overview of the whole month. The holidays in the month are shown in a different color. By placing the cursor on the calendar cell, the holiday information will be shown in a balloon. You can also edit holiday file(s) to place holidays in your country and other important dates of your own.
V1.1 also added the ephemeris of the sun, the moon, and the nine planets. You can easily find in which zodiac sign is Venus.
WHAT YOU NEED
CCalendar Converter needs PowerMac or Mac. However, due to the heavy calculation of astronomical events, it might look sluggish on a 68K machine.
HOW TO USE
CCalendar Converter should have the 'look and feel' of a Macintosh application. The use of CCalendar Converter should be straight-forward.
SHAREWARE
This software is SHAREWARE. If you use it longer than two weeks, you HAVE TO PAY. Afilliates of charity may use it free of charge. Please e-mail me with a plausible proof and I'll register you as a legal user and send you a registration code. The unregistered software is fully functional but might not have access to every date you input. :-)
Shareware Fee for CCalendar Converter is US$ 15 or DM 20.00. Please send cash in US$ in DM to the following address,
Joseph Chen
Borgfelder Str.16 H12.6B
D-20537 Hamburg
Germany
If you live in Germany, you can also transfer the shareware fee to my account,
Joseph Chen
Hamburger Sparkasse
BLZ 200 505 50
Kto: 1201475983
You can also use Kagi to register this software. The registration fee is $15 per user. A Site License costs $300 (roughly equal to 20 users) and covers all locations for your organization within a 160 kilometer radius of your site (100 miles). One big advantage of a Site License is that you do not need to keep track of how many people at your site are using the software.
A World-Wide License costs $1500 and it covers all locations for your organization on the planet earth.
Paying is fairly simple. Open the Register program that accompanies this program. Enter your name, your email address, and the number of single user licenses you desire for each program you wish to purchase (or Site or Word-Wide licenses). Save or Copy or Print the data from the Register program and send the data and payment to Kagi.
If paying with Credit Card or First Virtual, you can email or fax the data to Kagi. Their email address is sales@kagi.com and their fax number is +1 510 652-6589. You can either Copy the data from Register and paste into the body of an email message or you can Save the data to a file and you can attach that file to an email message. There is no need to compress the data file, it's already pretty small. If you have a fax modem, just Print the data to the Kagi fax number.
Payments sent via email are processed within 3 to 4 days. You will receive an email acknowledgement when it is processed. Payments sent via fax take up to 10 days and if you provide a correct internet email address you will receive an email acknowledgement.
If you are paying with Cash or USD Check you should print the data using the Register application and send it to the address shown on the form, which is:
Kagi
1442-A Walnut Street #392-4ZJ
Berkeley, California 94709-1405
USA
Please don't forget to include your e-mail address so that I can send you the registered code and notify you if there is update.
DISTRIBUTION
This software can be freely distributed as long as this readme file is enclosed.
WARRANTY
USE OF THIS SOFTWARE IMPLIES THAT YOU WILL HOLD ME HARMLESS TO ANY DAMAGES CAUSED BY THE PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE. YOU ALSO AGREE THAT I CANNOT BE HELD LIABLE FOR ANY OTHER DAMAGES YOU MAY INCUR BY THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE. I PROVIDE NO WARRANTY, EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, OF THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ITS MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NONINFRINGEMENT.
Contact of the Author
Please send bug report and suggestion about this software to,
I have intentionally avoided the word "Chinese," because it is simply not the whole story of this accurate lunisolar calendar. Besides, since "The People's Republic of China" seems to want to monopolize the word "China/Chinese," it would be much safer to avoid the direct confrontation with them. In English, 'Sinic' might be a proper alternative for it. After all, "CHINA IS A CIVILIZATION PRETENDING TO BE A STATE!" :-)
Program History:
Feb 21 1999 V1.1. Added ephemeris and monthly view of the calendar.