Calendar Xplorer for Windows .NET 1.2

Calendar Xplorer is a heavy duty perpetual calendar that offers views across multiple Calendar disciplines. It computes astronomical events (moon phases, blue moons, solstice, equinox, moon rise and set, sun rise & set) and displays the information according to the selected calendar system. It supports Ancient Roman, Bahai, Chinese, Coptic, Ethiopic, Fasli, French Republican, Gregorian, Hebrew, Indian Civil, Islamic, Japanese, Julian, Mayan, Persian, Quadimi, Shenshai and Viking calendars, with others currently in development. It understands multiple Gregorian reforms and can display them not only in current years but in the reform years as well.

Most calendars make major errors when regressing in time. Dont be fooled by proleptic calendars. You need a true reform based calendar when researching historical events. Rules describing calendar events and holidays come in all shapes and sizes. We can think of a specific date, like July 4 and note that that event is always celebrated on the fourth of July regardless of the day of week. An event like Thanksgiving requires knowledge of the day of week, as Thanksgiving is always the fourth Thursday of November yet the date will change from year to year. Leap day babies will always celebrate their birthday on February 29, unless they are in a year on which that date does not exist.

Perhaps you have a need to schedule a bi-monthly meeting on the 1st and 15th of the month, unless those dates happen to land on either Saturday or Sunday, then your meeting takes place on the previous Friday. Hebrew Sabbath always begins at sundown on the seventh day of the Hebrew calendar. Rules. The more one thinks about it, the more one realizes that we impose on our daily lives some very sophisticated calendaring rules. The intent of Calendar Xplorer is to meet these more demanding calendaring event needs. To accomplish this end, a powerful scripting language that can generate all of the events described above is required. Calendar Xplorer contains just such a language. Calendar Xplorer contains a powerful 5th generation event engine that can calculate events across all supported calendar systems with ease. Choose which calendar you want to view each on. Learn the true definition of world events and see them on your own calendar view. Each event is defined on its own calendar

Calendar Xplorer is useful as a general Calendar but it was really designed as a tool for educational use. It gives historians and other researchers a set of powerful tools to continue their research. Anyone who is interested in other cultures and how those cultures mark time will find Calendar Xplorer an important aid. Heck, it is just plain fun. The goal of Calendar Xplorer is to not only provide useful daily information but to educate about history and what calendars have meant to mankind and why. Learn why calendars exist and how they are indispensable to civilization. Calendars were not invented just to keep everything from happening on the same day.