Open source calendar package, version 0.4, available

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Open Source Calendar Package, version 0.4
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Homepage: http://joyds1.joensuu.fi/calendar/index.html
Download: http://joyds1.joensuu.fi/calendar/calendar-0.4.tar.bz2
License: GNU General Public License


This package implements many calendars.

In addition to the Gregorian calendar, it has

Armenian calendar
Bahai calendar
Coptic calendar
Ethiopic calendar
French revolutionary calendar
Hebrew calendar
HinduLunarCalendar
HinduSolarCalendar
IndianCalendar
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.


Change Log
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* Changes Since Version 0.3
Five new calendars:
- ArmenianCalendar
- BahaiCalendar
- HinduLunarCalendar
- HinduSolarCalendar
- IndianCalendar
CalendarApplet class.
Bug fixes.
More documentation.

* Changes Since Version 0.2
- Calculate Easter according to Julian and Gregorian Calendars.
- DefaultDateFormatSymbols for each calendar.
- DateParser class to parse dates using regular expressions.
The class defines regular expressions to parse dates like this
31.12.2004
12/31/2004
2004-12-31
20041231
31 December 2004
December 31, 2004
31. joulukuuta 2004
31 décembre 2004
but you can also use your own regular expressions.
Input can be from string or File or InputStream or any class that
implements the Readable interface.
You need Java version 1.5 to use DateParser.

* Changes Since Version 0.1
- Bug fixes.
- Java Bean to display a calendar.
Screenshot: http://joyds1.joensuu.fi/calendar/cal.png
- Easier installation: jar file.