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- ;;; cal-french.el --- calendar functions for the French Revolutionary calendar.
-
- ;; Copyright (C) 1988, 1989, 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- ;; Author: Edward M. Reingold <reingold@cs.uiuc.edu>
- ;; Keywords: calendar
- ;; Human-Keywords: French Revolutionary calendar, calendar, diary
-
- ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
-
- ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor
- ;; accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it
- ;; or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all,
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- ;; License for full details.
-
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- ;; and this notice must be preserved on all copies.
-
- ;;; Commentary:
-
- ;; This collection of functions implements the features of calendar.el and
- ;; diary.el that deal with the French Revolutionary calendar.
-
- ;; Technical details of the Mayan calendrical calculations can be found in
- ;; ``Calendrical Calculations, Part II: Three Historical Calendars''
- ;; by E. M. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. M. Clamen,
- ;; Software--Practice and Experience, Volume 23, Number 4 (April, 1993),
- ;; pages 383-404.
-
- ;; Comments, corrections, and improvements should be sent to
- ;; Edward M. Reingold Department of Computer Science
- ;; (217) 333-6733 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- ;; reingold@cs.uiuc.edu 1304 West Springfield Avenue
- ;; Urbana, Illinois 61801
-
- ;;; Code:
-
- (require 'calendar)
-
- (defconst french-calendar-month-name-array
- ["Vende'miaire" "Brumaire" "Frimaire" "Nivo^se" "Pluvio^se" "Vento^se"
- "Germinal" "Flore'al" "Prairial" "Messidor" "Thermidor" "Fructidor"])
-
- (defconst french-calendar-day-name-array
- ["Primidi" "Duodi" "Tridi" "Quartidi" "Quintidi" "Sextidi" "Septidi"
- "Octidi" "Nonidi" "Decadi"])
-
- (defconst french-calendar-special-days-array
- ["de la Vertu" "du Genie" "du Labour" "de la Raison" "de la Recompense"
- "de la Revolution"])
-
- (defun french-calendar-leap-year-p (year)
- "True if YEAR is a leap year on the French Revolutionary calendar.
- For Gregorian years 1793 to 1805, the years of actual operation of the
- calendar, uses historical practice based on equinoxes is followed (years 3, 7,
- and 11 were leap years; 15 and 20 would have been leap years). For later
- years uses the proposed rule of Romme (never adopted)--leap years fall every
- four years except century years not divisible 400 and century years that are
- multiples of 4000."
- (or (memq year '(3 7 11));; Actual practice--based on equinoxes
- (memq year '(15 20)) ;; Anticipated practice--based on equinoxes
- (and (> year 20) ;; Romme's proposal--never adopted
- (zerop (% year 4))
- (not (memq (% year 400) '(100 200 300)))
- (not (zerop (% year 4000))))))
-
- (defun french-calendar-last-day-of-month (month year)
- "Return last day of MONTH, YEAR on the French Revolutionary calendar.
- The 13th month is not really a month, but the 5 (6 in leap years) day period of
- `sansculottides' at the end of the year."
- (if (< month 13)
- 30
- (if (french-calendar-leap-year-p year)
- 6
- 5)))
-
- (defun calendar-absolute-from-french (date)
- "Compute absolute date from French Revolutionary date DATE.
- The absolute date is the number of days elapsed since the (imaginary)
- Gregorian date Sunday, December 31, 1 BC."
- (let ((month (extract-calendar-month date))
- (day (extract-calendar-day date))
- (year (extract-calendar-year date)))
- (+ (* 365 (1- year));; Days in prior years
- ;; Leap days in prior years
- (if (< year 20)
- (/ year 4);; Actual and anticipated practice (years 3, 7, 11, 15)
- ;; Romme's proposed rule (using the Principle of Inclusion/Exclusion)
- (+ (/ (1- year) 4);; Luckily, there were 4 leap years before year 20
- (- (/ (1- year) 100))
- (/ (1- year) 400)
- (- (/ (1- year) 4000))))
- (* 30 (1- month));; Days in prior months this year
- day;; Days so far this month
- 654414)));; Days before start of calendar (September 22, 1792).
-
- (defun calendar-french-from-absolute (date)
- "Compute the French Revolutionary equivalent for absolute date DATE.
- The result is a list of the form (MONTH DAY YEAR).
- The absolute date is the number of days elapsed since the
- (imaginary) Gregorian date Sunday, December 31, 1 BC."
- (if (< date 654415)
- (list 0 0 0);; pre-French Revolutionary date
- (let* ((approx (/ (- date 654414) 366));; Approximation from below.
- (year ;; Search forward from the approximation.
- (+ approx
- (calendar-sum y approx
- (>= date (calendar-absolute-from-french (list 1 1 (1+ y))))
- 1)))
- (month ;; Search forward from Vendemiaire.
- (1+ (calendar-sum m 1
- (> date
- (calendar-absolute-from-french
- (list m
- (french-calendar-last-day-of-month m year)
- year)))
- 1)))
- (day ;; Calculate the day by subtraction.
- (- date
- (1- (calendar-absolute-from-french (list month 1 year))))))
- (list month day year))))
-
- (defun calendar-print-french-date ()
- "Show the French Revolutionary calendar equivalent of the selected date."
- (interactive)
- (let* ((french-date (calendar-french-from-absolute
- (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
- (or (calendar-cursor-to-date)
- (error "Cursor is not on a date!")))))
- (y (extract-calendar-year french-date))
- (m (extract-calendar-month french-date))
- (d (extract-calendar-day french-date)))
- (if (< y 1)
- (message "Date is pre-French Revolution")
- (if (= m 13)
- (message "Jour %s de l'Anne'e %d de la Revolution"
- (aref french-calendar-special-days-array (1- d))
- y)
- (message "Decade %s, %s de %s de l'Anne'e %d de la Revolution"
- (make-string (1+ (/ (1- d) 10)) ?I)
- (aref french-calendar-day-name-array (% (1- d) 10))
- (aref french-calendar-month-name-array (1- m))
- y)))))
-
- (defun calendar-goto-french-date (date &optional noecho)
- "Move cursor to French Revolutionary date DATE.
- Echo French Revolutionary date unless NOECHO is t."
- (interactive
- (let* ((year (calendar-read
- "Anne'e de la Revolution (>0): "
- '(lambda (x) (> x 0))
- (int-to-string
- (extract-calendar-year
- (calendar-french-from-absolute
- (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian
- (calendar-current-date)))))))
- (month-list
- (mapcar 'list
- (append french-calendar-month-name-array
- (if (french-calendar-leap-year-p year)
- (mapcar
- '(lambda (x) (concat "Jour " x))
- french-calendar-special-days-array)
- (cdr;; we don't want rev. day in a non-leap yr.
- (nreverse
- (mapcar
- '(lambda (x) (concat "Jour " x))
- french-calendar-special-days-array)))))))
- (completion-ignore-case t)
- (month (cdr (assoc
- (capitalize
- (completing-read
- "Mois ou Sansculottide: "
- month-list
- nil t))
- (calendar-make-alist
- month-list
- 1
- '(lambda (x) (capitalize (car x)))))))
- (decade (if (> month 12)
- 1
- (calendar-read
- "De'cade (1-3): "
- '(lambda (x) (memq x '(1 2 3))))))
- (day (if (> month 12)
- (- month 12)
- (calendar-read
- "Jour (1-10)): "
- '(lambda (x) (and (<= 1 x) (<= x 10))))))
- (month (if (> month 12) 13 month))
- (day (+ day (* 10 (1- decade)))))
- (list (list month day year))))
- (calendar-goto-date (calendar-gregorian-from-absolute
- (calendar-absolute-from-french date)))
- (or noecho (calendar-print-french-date)))
-
- (defun diary-french-date ()
- "French calendar equivalent of date diary entry."
- (let* ((french-date (calendar-french-from-absolute
- (calendar-absolute-from-gregorian date)))
- (y (extract-calendar-year french-date))
- (m (extract-calendar-month french-date))
- (d (extract-calendar-day french-date)))
- (if (> y 0)
- (if (= m 13)
- (format "Jour %s de l'Anne'e %d de la Revolution"
- (aref french-calendar-special-days-array (1- d))
- y)
- (format "Decade %s, %s de %s de l'Anne'e %d de la Revolution"
- (make-string (1+ (/ (1- d) 10)) ?I)
- (aref french-calendar-day-name-array (% (1- d) 10))
- (aref french-calendar-month-name-array (1- m))
- y)))))
-
- (provide 'cal-french)
-
- ;;; cal-french.el ends here
-