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authorJim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>1992-08-12 12:50:10 +0000
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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: 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,
+;; unless he says so in writing. Refer to the GNU Emacs General Public
+;; License for full details.
+
+;; Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute
+;; GNU Emacs, but only under the conditions described in the
+;; GNU Emacs General Public License. A copy of this license is
+;; supposed to have been given to you along with GNU Emacs so you
+;; can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a
+;; file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice
+;; 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 French Revolutionary calendrical calculations can
+;; be found in ``Calendrical Calculations, Part II: Three Historical
+;; Calendars'' by E. M. Reingold, N. Dershowitz, and S. M. Clamen,
+;; Report Number UIUCDCS-R-92-1743, Department of Computer Science,
+;; University of Illinois, April, 1992.
+
+;; 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)
+ "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)
+ "Absolute date of French Revolutionary 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 date (month day year) corresponding to
+absolute DATE. 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 date under the
+cursor."
+ (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.
+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