Calendrical Calculations

About this book

A valuable resource for working programmers as well as a fount of useful algorithmic tools for computer scientists this new edition of the popular calendars book expands the treatment of the previous edition to new calendar variants: generic cyclical calendars and astronomical lunar calendars as well as the Korean Vietnamese Aztec and Tibetan calendars. The authors frame the calendars of the world in a completely algorithmic form allowing easy conversion among these calendars and the determination of secular and religious holidays. LISP code for all the algorithms are available on the Web.